Kids Like Me: Young People's Stories of Coming to America

by JudeeBlohm (Author), TerriLapinsky (Author)

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2006
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An illustrated book of short profiles of immigrant children aged 10 to 25. Teaches sensitivity to foreign cultures and the value of diversity to middle school children and older. Kids Like Me consists of profiles of 23 real foreign-born adolescents and young adults. Each chapter contains a short narrative in the form of an interview or self-description in the voice of the person being profiled along with a portrait that has been modified to prevent identification of the individual. These stories are intended to help school children ages 10 years and over to understand classmates from other cultures, foster tolerance, intercultural awareness and sensitivity. Written in a very accessible style, Kids Like Me also includes activities that can be done with friends or in a classroom that will help people to get to know each other better. Additionally, there is a list of resources including suggested books and websites that parents and teachers and mentors can refer to.

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An illustrated book of short profiles of immigrant children aged 10 to 25. Teaches sensitivity to foreign cultures and the value of diversity to middle school children and older. "Kids Like Me" consists of profiles of 23 real foreign-born adolescents and young adults. Each chapter contains a short narrative in the form of an interview or self-description in the voice of the person being profiled along with a portrait that has been modified to prevent identification of the individual. These stories are intended to help school children ages 10 years and over to understand classmates from other cultures, foster tolerance, intercultural awareness and sensitivity. Written in a very accessible style, "Kids Like Me" also includes activities that can be done with friends or in a classroom that will help people to get to know each other better. Additionally, there is a list of resources including suggested books and websites that parents and teachers and mentors can refer to.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Published: 15 Jun 2006
ISBN 10: 193193021X
ISBN 13: 9781931930215

Media Reviews

Kids Like Me: Voices of the Immigrant Experience provides a valuable resource for educators, volunteers, staff of youth organizations and parents of young people attending schools with the kids whose profiles are so sensitively shared. Globalization's young faces and voices come alive in Kids Like Me. -- Frances Hesselbein, former National Executive Director of the Girl Scouts of the USA and Chairman of Leader to Leader Institute
Kids Like Me: Voices of the Immigrant Experience is at once a delightful, timely, and very serious contribution to intercultural relations by two of the field's most experienced practitioners. Judee Blohm and Terri Lapinsky offer a creative, compassionate, informative, and ultimately very practical treatment of a topic that is already huge in its implications and only continues to grow in significance. Teachers, students, and interculturalists alike will benefit from this fine book. -- David J. Bachner, Ph.D., Scholar-in-Residence and Director, Intercultural Management Institute, School of International Service, American University
This book is about understanding from the heart, understanding how being the other feels, and helping people who have never experienced that otherness to feel what being different feels like - to feel the pain of being ostracized or being made to feel different, as well as the gratitude and wonderment of coming to a new place and being welcomed, accepted, and loved. Your book gives teachers meaningful and accessible ways to help them explore these complex themes with their students, to help them recognize the pain inflicted by racism as well as recognize opportunities for kindness, and valuing diversity. -- Elizabeth Macdonald, Director of the Writing Enhancement Program, Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management.

Author Bio

Judee Blohm is a cross-cultural educator and training consultant in Washington, DC. Her clients include professional and educational organizations, Peace Corps and other development and service organizations, and the State Department. Judy is the author and editor of numerous training materials and has contributed chapters to various books in the intercultural field and the book Where in the World are You Going? (Intercultural Press, 1996.) Terri Lapinsky is a consultant with 30 years' experience in international and multicultural education and training, including holding positions in the Peace Corp as Program and Training Advisor for Africa, Country Director for Mozambique and Education Specialist. Her clients include the Jefferson County (West Virginia) Public Schools, New York City Public Schools and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Lapinsky lives in West Virginia.