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Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America

by Helen Thorpe – Scribner (September 22, 2009)

A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Just...

The Guarded Gate

by Daniel Okrent – Scribner (May 07, 2019)

NAMED ONE OF THE “100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR” BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“An extraordinary book, I can’t recommend it highly enough.” -Whoopi Goldberg, The View

By the widely celebrated New...

The Newcomers

by Helen Thorpe – Scribner (November 14, 2017)

From the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us, an “extraordinary” (The Denver Post) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and their compassionate teacher and “a...