The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
10 best books like The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens (Brooke Hauser): The Talk-Funny Girl, Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, The White Bicycle, Money Boy, We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March, Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein, Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
| Author | Roland Merullo |
| ISBN | 0307452921 |
In one of the poorest parts of rural New Hampshire, teenage girls have been disappearing, snatched from back country roads, never to be seen alive again. For seventeen-year-old Marjorie Richards, the fear raised by these abductions is the backdrop to what she lives with in her own home, every day. ...
Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am
| Author | Harry Mazer |
| ISBN | 1416938958 |
Ben has always had it pretty easy--with no acting experience, he landed the lead in his high school musical, and he's dating the prettiest girl in school. Haunted by memories of 9/11, he makes the decision to enlist in the army--with devastating consequences. Somehow nobody ever thought Ben would be...
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374304688 |
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists...
Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
| Author | Helen Thorpe |
| ISBN | 1416538933 |
Written by a gifted journalist, a powerful account of four young Mexican women coming of age in Denver—two of whom have legal documentation, two of whom who don’t— and the challenges they face as they attempt to pursue the American dream.
Just Like Us takes readers on a compelling...
| Author | Jonathan Fetter-Vorm |
| ISBN | 0809094681 |
Trinity, the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century...
| Author | Beverley Brenna |
| ISBN | 0889954836 |
The White Bicycle is the third stand-alone title in the Wild Orchid series about a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome. This installment chronicles Taylor Jane's travels to the south of France where she spends a summer babysitting for the Phoenix family. Including flashbacks into Taylor's earliest...
| Author | Paul Yee |
| ISBN | 1554980941 |
An American Library Association Youth Media Award Stonewall Honor Book
Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of gaming. He needs the escape. It’s tough getting grades...
| Author | Cynthia Levinson |
| ISBN | 1561456276 |
We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s precept to fill the jails, they succeeded...
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| ISBN | 1580893449 |
This biography of American composer, pianist, and conductor Leonard Bernstein takes readers from his childhood in Boston to his spectacular professional conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1943. Illustrated with archival photographs, mostly from the Leonard Bernstein Collection...
| Author | Larry Colton |
| ISBN | 0446677558 |
In Native American tradition, a warrior gained honor and glory by "counting coup" -- touching his enemy in battle and living to tell the tale. This is a modern story of...
COUNTING COUP
In this extraordinary work of journalism, Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana's Crow...
| Author | Donald R. Gallo |
| ISBN | 0763632910 |
"Stories by eleven well-known authors touch on a variety of teen experiences, with enough attitude and angst to speak to young adults anywhere." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Fleeing from political violence in Venezuela, Amina and her family have settled in the United States. Sarah, adopted,...
| Author | Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch |
| ISBN | 0986949515 |
Last Airlift is the true story of the last Canadian airlift operation that left Saigon and arrived in Toronto on April 13, 1975. Son Thi Anh Tuyet was one of 57 babies and children on that flight. Based on personal interviews and enhanced with archive photos, Tuyet's story of the Saigon orphanage and her...
| Author | Joseph Lambert |
| ISBN | 1423113365 |
«My heart is singing for joy this morning! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!»Helen Keller lost her ability to see and hear before she turned two years old.
But in her lifetime, she learned to ride horseback and dance the foxtrot....
| Author | Michele Wucker |
| ISBN | 0809097133 |
Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto....
| Author | Jo Ann Beard |
| ISBN | 0316084476 |
The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that "fudge" can't be said with an English accent.
Luckily,...
| Author | Richard Ross |
| ISBN | 0985510609 |
Winner of the 2012 Best News and Documentary Photography Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors for a selection published in Harper’s Magazine, the photographs in Juvenile in Justice open our eyes to the world of the incarceration of American youth. The nearly 150 images in this book...
| Author | Rachel DeWoskin |
| ISBN | 0374112576 |
A scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.
Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old - sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake...
| Author | L.B. Tillit |
| ISBN | 1616517921 |
After two years in a loving home, TJ's mother got him back. She was clean. No pot. No meth. His chest felt like it was burning. His heart was racing. Trapped. He felt trapped. He didn't have a say. Everything he had come to care about would be gone: Miss Dixie, hot meals, friends, Mae's little hand, and Annabelle....
| Author | Bil Wright |
| ISBN | 1416939962 |
Carlos Duarte knows that he's fabulous. He's got a better sense of style than half the fashionistas in New York City, and he can definitely apply makeup like nobody's business. He may only be in high school, but when he lands the job of his dreams--makeup artist at the FeatureFace counter in Macy's--he's...
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0439691842 |
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author has written an amazing account of one of America's most famous hoaxes!
When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of epic proportions. News of the...
The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
| Author | Mark Kurlansky |
| ISBN | 1594487502 |
The intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author.
In the town of San Pedro in the Dominican Republic, baseball is not just a way of life....
| Author | Albert Marrin |
| ISBN | 0375866736 |
Oil is not pretty, but it is a resource that drives the modern world. It has made fortunes for the lucky few and provided jobs for millions of ordinary folks.
Thick and slippery, crude oil has an evil smell. Yet without it, life as we live it today would be impossible. Oil fuels our engines, heats...
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0547903782 |
Angel Island, off the coast of California, was the port of entry for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940. Following the passage of legislation requiring the screening of immigrants, "the other Ellis Island" processed around one million people from Japan, China, and Korea....
The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
| Author | Lisa Delpit |
| ISBN | 1565848209 |
The author of Other People's Children joins with other experts to examine the relationship between language and power in the classroom. The Skin That We Speak takes the discussion of language in the classroom beyond the highly charged war of idioms and presents today's teachers with a thoughtful exploration...
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
| Author | Jennifer Gonnerman |
| ISBN | 0312424574 |
Life on the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine--a first offense--under New York's Rockefeller drug laws. The book opens on the morning of January 26, 2000, when Bartlett is set free and returns to New York City. At 42, she has...
