Sentences with phrase «books about immigrant»

Picture books about immigrant families are certainly nothing new, but renewed attention to immigrant experiences has ushered in a prodigious crop of new titles, and few are as evocative or heartening as Bao Phi and Thi Bui's A Different Pond.

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The single paragraph devoted to Christian Immigrants by Eck in her much - noticed book A New Religious America obscures the fact that the new immigration is bringing about not so much a new diversity among American religions as diversity within America's majority religion.

In her book The Immigrant Advantage, journalist Claudia Kolker writes about an amazing Mexican tradition known as the cuarentana.

The details of state inspections of nail salons are perhaps most revealing about just how challenging it is to regulate a largely immigrant - run industry in which almost everything is done off the books and employers are often unfamiliar with the intricacies of state labor laws.

The governor also made statements about protecting immigrant and abortion rights, raising the age of criminal responsibility and, in his State of the State book, rolling back the state's marijuana laws.

This heavyweight awards candidate from first - time director Vadim Perelman stars Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly and is based on Andre Dubus's book about an Iranian immigrant and his family's battle in the US over a house he buys in an auction, with tragic consequences.

What a Forgotten Kids» Book Reveals About U.S. Publishing — Pooja Makhijani examines the poignant children's novel Gay Neck, which was written by an Indian immigrant who became the first person of color to win the Newbery Medal.

The class then read a book about Bavarian immigrant Levi Strauss and his fellow settlers during the California gold rush.

Yoshikawa will spend the year working on a book about the development and learning of infants and young children in low - income immigrant families in New York City.

Though I am primarily a food critic, I have written a book about the traditions of American cooking (which included a chapter on school lunches) and can tell you that hot lunches in public schools were originally produced, with a few exceptions, early in the 20th century by local charities because immigrant children were coming to school hungry.

Below, two members of our network describe how they have used two of the titles on the Social Justice Book List to help students check their assumptions and biases about race, immigrants and social class.

The book includes vocabulary and basic information about the 14 main languages immigrants to the area speak.

That's because the book — a nonfiction story about 19 Mexican immigrants who died while trying to cross the border in Texas 14 years ago — hit close to home.

We work with undocumented young folks and have started our own list of more diverse Common Core books and want to bring immigrant parents to bilingual workshops about what common core means.

For instance, in choosing links for the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award book American Born Chinese by Gene Yang, I was able to select graphic novels and books about graphic novels, for readers who are interested in the format, as well as historical fiction about the lives of Chinese immigrants in North America and contemporary novels about teens living with immigrant parents.

We recently spoke with Phi, an award - winning poet and community activist, and Bui, a graphic novelist who's won recent acclaim for her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (2017), about their debut picture book, their collaboration, and how their own experiences growing up as Vietnamese immigrants in America helped inform the book.

It is such a beautifully written book about Irish immigrants who come to America, and about the misunderstandings and secrets that can tear families apart.

If there are fewer immigrant journeys, there will be fewer great books about those journeys and fewer opportunities for all of us to see the connections between ourselves and immigrants from different cultures.

Editions Intervalles published her first book «California Dreaming» in 2007, a collection of photos by Naomi Harris and interviews by Yann Perreau about immigrants who moved to LA in search of their American dream.

A regional politician in Germany has been sentenced to pay a fine of 1,500 euros or spend 50 days in prison because he allegedly called Thilo Sarrazin, the author of an incendiary book about Muslim immigrants, an «ass.»