Edited: Donald R. Gallo
So, this book
contains 10 short stories about mostly high school kids who have immigrated or
are immigrating to the United States.
There’s a story about a kid from Palestine, Romania, Korea, Cambodia,
and others. It gives you a pretty well
rounded group of stories. I think my
favorite one is Lines of Scrimmage
which is about a Palestinian boy who wants to play football and makes friends
with a Navajo boy and they go to Canyon de Chelly. Sweet.
I thought it was interesting how the story brought up how there was
racial tension between the two minorities.
Are these stories
teachable? Absolutely. I think they are great to use in a classroom
setting. They aren’t too long and they
aren’t too short. There’s humor, there’s
drama. They are definitely relatable
stories and some of them give some twists that you weren’t expecting making
them different than your average immigrant story. Some of the stories use words from the native
language which is always culturally enlightening. The vocabulary wasn’t too difficult but I am
sure there were vocab teaching moments in there. If not used in the classroom I would also
recommend students to read this book independently. Overall, a good choice.
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