New Kids In Town: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens (aka New Kids on the Block)
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Genre: Children's Books
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genre: Children's Books
Book Type: Paperback
Helpful Score: 1
It's funny but I had this listed on a swapping site I use for a long time now - because I had only glanced at it and I thought it was a bio about that awful boy band New Kids on the Block! I guess I only saw the 'New Kids' and those squares with a pic inside each one - just the way the "boys" always did. :)
Anyway, when I came to realize that this wasn't, in fact, about a bunch of non-singing "kid/men" that I couldn't care any less about I pulled it out.
New Kids in Town is very obviously for the younger audience but I still got some things out of it. It can be read very fast by an adult, I'm sure even by a young person too. I liked the diversity and I liked that besides the one or two paragraphs by [author:Janet Bode|118519] about the country being represented the stories were in the kids own words.
I'm keeping this for when Julia gets older - I think knowing what other kids have gone through/go through can really help an American child/pre-teen understand a little better and hopefully be more understanding towards other people. I was shocked, at 32 years old, at what some of these children had to deal with and what they escaped from. And then to come here and struggle and be treated harshly by the American children - it's awful.....
Anyway, when I came to realize that this wasn't, in fact, about a bunch of non-singing "kid/men" that I couldn't care any less about I pulled it out.
New Kids in Town is very obviously for the younger audience but I still got some things out of it. It can be read very fast by an adult, I'm sure even by a young person too. I liked the diversity and I liked that besides the one or two paragraphs by [author:Janet Bode|118519] about the country being represented the stories were in the kids own words.
I'm keeping this for when Julia gets older - I think knowing what other kids have gone through/go through can really help an American child/pre-teen understand a little better and hopefully be more understanding towards other people. I was shocked, at 32 years old, at what some of these children had to deal with and what they escaped from. And then to come here and struggle and be treated harshly by the American children - it's awful.....
