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The saddest book you could ever read going into the Trump administration.

December 31, 2016 by Blingle Bells Leave a Comment

Brooke Hauser follows the goings-on at International High School at Prospect Heights for a school year. International High School accepts recent immigrants with or without documentation. Their admissions requirements are that they must be recent immigrants (I want to say within a year?) and they have to take an English test and fail. It roughly follows about 10-20 students of varying nationalities and a few teachers. The year she follows is at the very beginning of the Obama administration and it’s truly heartbreaking to juxtapose […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: brooke hauser, high school, Immigration, Non-Fiction, students

Blingle Bells's CBR8 Review No:51 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: brooke hauser, high school, Immigration, Non-Fiction, students ·
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