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– Green Card Voices has recorded about 500 stories of immigrants and refugees residing in nine states and originating from 140 countries. – «Green Card Youth Voices: Upstate New York High Schools» will be the sixth in a series of youth books published by Green Card Voices. The previous editions include students living in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Fargo, Atlanta, Madison, and Milwaukee. – Written in their own words, this anthology is a collection of 29 personal essays written by immigrants coming from 16 different countries, including Albania, Greece, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Belarus, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Puerto Rico, Somalia, Bangladesh, Congo, Burma (Rohingya), Honduras, Iraq, Burundi, and Rwanda. – Unique to this book are the 29 full-color portraits of each of the storytellers, along with scannable QR codes that link to each storyteller’s online video narrative, and maps. – Foreword written by Eman Muthana, a graduate of the Rochester City School District (RCSD) World of Inquiry School #58. Eman is an immigrants rights activist who brought World Hijab Day to RCSD in 2015. – There is a study guide and glossary, which will be an invigorating resource for English and social science classes, adult learners, EL classrooms, and book clubs. – E-book available same date as print edition, e-book ISBN included on press materials and websites and promoted via social media, including a book trailer.

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Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from Madison and Milwaukee High Schools is the fifth book in the award winning Green Card Youth Voices series. The series is tremendously popular in classrooms (EL, social studies, history, etc.) and libraries, and are particularly suited for the local cities in which they are based.

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