10) documents four teenagers and the educators who challenge and comfort them during a tumultuous 2017-2018 year. Her new book “Refugee High: Coming of Age in America” (The New Press Aug. “It was Arabic, and Swahili, and Urdu, all mixed up in English. “The first day I walked into the school, I heard this wall of sound,” she said. Nearly 40 languages are spoken in the hallways of the campus - a designated “welcoming center” for new arrivals to the United States that offers a social worker specifically for new immigrants and an in-school health clinic. That quest quickly led her to Sullivan High School, a neighborhood public high school on Chicago’s Far North Side. A high energy protest at O’Hare International Airport early in the Donald Trump era kicked off author Elly Fishman’s quest to document the lives of refugee teenagers who had resettled in Chicago.
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