Caught Between Cultures: A New NBNR Series
Each year, the adult education programs that partner with New Books, New Readers eagerly await a new series, and just about every year, the program provides one. In 2010, New Books, New Readers developed a series on the immigrant experience in the United States. “Caught Between Cultures” explores such questions as: What do immigrants find alien about America? How does America start feeling like home? How can you maintain the culture that you were born into and still become American? What do immigrants value most about America?
New Books, New Readers is a reading and discussion program for adults who struggle to read. It uses children’s books with simple language but enormous ideas. The texts for “Caught Between Cultures,” like all other series, are capable of prompting powerful conversations:
Home at Last, Susan Middleton Elya
Grandfather Counts, Andrea Cheng
In English, of Course, Josephine Nobisso
Angel Child, Dragon Child, Michele Maria Surat
Molly Bannaky, Alice McGill
When Jessie Came Across the Sea, Amy Hest
A Day’s Work, Eve Bunting
Hannah Is My Name: A Young Immigrant’s Story, Belle Yang
Coolies, Yin
