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Who Belongs Here?: An American Story
Contributor(s): Burns Knight, Margy (Author), Sibley O'brien, Anne (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0884488365     ISBN-13: 9780884488361
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
OUR PRICE:   $8.96  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2020
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics - Emigration & Immigration
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American
Dewey: 305.895
Lexile Measure: 1040
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 10.9" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 48 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

In this probing, plain-spoken book, based on a true story, Margy Burns Knight and Anne Sibley O'Brien, author and illustrator of the acclaimed Talking Walls, invite young readers to explore the human implications of intolerance. Anecdotes relating the experiences of other refugees and their contributions to American culture play counterpoint to Nary's tale, all enlivened by O'Brien's full-color pastels. A compendium at the end of the book offers more detailed information about Pol, Pot, Ellis Island, and other topics in this text.

Who Belongs Here? will lead to discussions about

  • The effects of war on children and families
  • Refugees and relocation processes in the U.S.Cambodian culture
  • U.S. History and attitudes towards immigration
  • Bullying and intolerance
  • Conflict-resolution skills

Lexile Level 1040

Fountas and Pinnell Level W

Contributor Bio(s): Burns Knight, Margy: - MARGY BURNS KNIGHT received the National Education Association's Author-Illustrator Human & Civil Rights Award for her work with Anne Sibley O'Brien and the Children's Africana Book Award for Africa Is Not a Country. She is the author of Talking Walls, which has sold more than 200,000 copies. She writes a blog, "Discover Your World," and is a Service Learning Coordinator, an English teacher, and a Peace Corps veteran.Sibley O'brien, Anne: - ANNE SIBLEY O'BRIEN has illustrated 31 books, including Talking Walls, and is the author and illustrator of the picture book I'm New Here and the graphic novel The Legend of Hong Kil Dong. Annie's passion for multiracial, multicultural, and global subjects grew out of her experience of being raised bilingual and bicultural in South Korea as the daughter of medical missionaries. She writes the column "The Illustrator's Perspective" for the Bulletin of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and a blog, "Coloring Between the Lines." The mother of two grown children, she lives with her husband on an island in Maine.