Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
by:
Helen Thorpe (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781439166253 (1439166250)
Publish date: September 22nd 2009
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Adult,
Culture,
Politics,
Sociology,
Womens,
Social
Overall, I enjoyed this book a lot, though a number of issues bothered me. The author, a journalist, follows the lives of three young Mexican-born women living in Colorado for several years, beginning just before they finish high school. Two of the girls are undocumented, having been brought to the ...
This book takes the hot button issue of illegal immigration and examines it up close and personal, from every side including inside and out. The author describes the lives and experiences of four girls of Mexican heritage from high school through college; Two lack legal status, the other two have p...
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