Unaccompanied

2018-05-01 Poetry

Author : Javier Zamora
Release : 2018-05-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 777/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Unaccompanied written by Javier Zamora. This book was released on 2018-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, don't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Unaccompanied

2022-02-22 EDUCATION

Author : Emily Ruehs-Navarro
Release : 2022-02-22
Genre : EDUCATION
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Book Rating : 098/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Unaccompanied written by Emily Ruehs-Navarro. This book was released on 2022-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the experiences of unaccompanied immigrant youth once they arrive to the United States, with a focus on the professionals who try to help. Once youth are detained at the border, they encounter a wide range of professionals whose job it is to help youth find a family system, obtain legal relief, and enter into the education system. Although many professionals who work to help youth often have youth's best interests in mind, their jobs are shaped by three important strains in U.S. history: border security, racialized child welfare, and neoliberal humanitarianism. Because of this, professionals who work with youth find that they are often complicit in the same oppressive systems that they work against. This book explores the tension in this system by providing a critical lens to those who try to help"--

Unaccompanied Minor

2013-12-02 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Hollis Gillespie
Release : 2013-12-02
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 743/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Unaccompanied Minor written by Hollis Gillespie. This book was released on 2013-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old April May Manning spent her life on airplanes with her flight attendant parents. When her father dies in a crash, April's mom marries a pilot who turns out to be an abusive jerk, and gets Mom confined to a psychiatric hospital. So April takes off, literally, living on airplanes, using her mother's flight benefits, relying on the flight crews who know she's been shuttling between divorcing parents for a year. Then, there's a hijacking, but why is April's "dad" on board? April flees to the cargo hold with another unaccompanied minor she's met before, and they fight to thwart the hijackers, faking a fire, making weapons from things they find in luggage. At last, locked in the cockpit with a wounded police officer, the boy, and his service dog, April tries to remember everything her parents said to do in a crisis above the clouds. But she knows it won't be enough.

Unaccompanied Traveler

2022-02-15 Travel

Author : Patrick Bixby
Release : 2022-02-15
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 347/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Unaccompanied Traveler written by Patrick Bixby. This book was released on 2022-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized as "the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of her time . . . insofar as she let herself be known to the public at all." An abiding interest in sacred sites and ancient civilizations took Murphy down the Amazon and over the Andes, into the jungles of Southeast Asia and onto the deserts of the Middle East, above the Arctic Circle and behind the Iron Curtain. After the Second World War, Murphy began publishing a series of vivid, humorous, and often harrowing accounts of her travels in The Capuchin Annual, a journal reaching a largely Catholic and nationalist audience in Ireland and the United States. At home in the Irish midlands, Murphy may have been a modest and retiring figure, but her travelogues shuttle between religious devotion and searching curiosity, primitivist assumptions and probing insights, gender decorum and bold adventuring. Unaccompanied Traveler, with its wide-ranging introduction, detailed notes, and eye-catching maps, retrieves these remarkable accounts from obscurity and presents them to a new generation of readers interested in travel and adventure.

Unaccompanied Minors

2013-12-20 Fiction

Author : Alden Jones
Release : 2013-12-20
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 999/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Unaccompanied Minors written by Alden Jones. This book was released on 2013-12-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alden Jones is humorous like Twain without being cynical; she treats all her amazing encounters and strangers with mucho love. She makes highly entertaining and fresh stories out of culture clash, traveling as an observant gringa, fluent in Spanish. She arrives at many deep insights about other cultures and ours, while transcending the form of travelogue into amazing and dramatic storytelling. - Josip Novakovich, Man Booker International Prize Finalist and author of April Fool's Day

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