Something about America
Testa, Maria
Something about America / Maria Testa - 1st ed - Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press , 2005. - 84 p. ; 21 cm.
The author uses spare verse to tell a poignant story about a child touched by war. Burn scars, sustained in Kosovo during the most recent war, cover most of the narrator's body: "I look like / where I'm from," she says. Even so, the eighth-grader feels like a "typical American schoolgirl." Her parents are more at odds with life in the U.S., and the girl speaks powerfully about the heartbreaking choices her parents have faced. But after the girl's father organizes a protest against a hate group in a neighboring town, the family is heartened by the public's response and support.
9780763625283
2005047064
Children of immigrants----Juvenile poetry
Immigrants----Juvenile poetry
Children's poetry, American
PS3570.E847 / S66 2005
YA 811 TES
Something about America / Maria Testa - 1st ed - Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press , 2005. - 84 p. ; 21 cm.
The author uses spare verse to tell a poignant story about a child touched by war. Burn scars, sustained in Kosovo during the most recent war, cover most of the narrator's body: "I look like / where I'm from," she says. Even so, the eighth-grader feels like a "typical American schoolgirl." Her parents are more at odds with life in the U.S., and the girl speaks powerfully about the heartbreaking choices her parents have faced. But after the girl's father organizes a protest against a hate group in a neighboring town, the family is heartened by the public's response and support.
9780763625283
2005047064
Children of immigrants----Juvenile poetry
Immigrants----Juvenile poetry
Children's poetry, American
PS3570.E847 / S66 2005
YA 811 TES
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