Newcomers to America: Stories of Today's Young Immigrants

Author: Judith E. Greenberg

Newcomers to America is an engrossing collection of interviews and conversations that candidly introduce over a dozen immigrants who tell their tales of leaving home and coming to the United States. The interviews capture the adaptation to a new culture and language, steps taken toward gaining citizenship and hardships and successes. Although the immigrants interviewed in this book represented every corner of the world, most of the individuals have settled in the DC-Baltimore area.  The book does a good job explaining immigration from an historical and political perspective through the interviews and the author's additions. The best feature of Newcomers to America is the 20-page collection of recipes in the back of the book that were contributed by the participants in this project.

Newcomers to America

Year Released: 1996

Grades 8-12