Highlights from a Few BIC-Supported Events
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Highlights from a Few BIC-Supported Events
Also posted in A Sudden Light, Christina Baker Kline, Common Reads Programs, Community Reads Programs, Enrique's Journey, Enzo Races in the Rain, Etched in Sand, Garth Stein, Issue #12, Regina Calcaterra, Reyna Grande
Tagged All Campus Reads, Christina Baker Kline, Community Reads Programs, Enrique's Journey, Garth Stein, Orphan Train, Reyna Grande, The Art of Racing in the Rain, The Distance Between Us
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Broadening the American Immigration Discussion with Outstanding Author Events
Create a special author event at your college, library or literary festival focused on the issue of immigration.
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Also posted in Enrique's Journey, Guadelupe Garcia McCall, Maria E. Andreu, Matt de la Peña, Reyna Grande, Secret Side of Empty, The Distance Between Us
Tagged American immigration debate, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Maria Andreu, Matt de la Pena, Reyna Grande, Sonya Nazario
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Sonia Nazario on Jon Stewart
Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey, discusses the refugee crisis with Jon Stewart.
Read More »Sonia Nazario Speaks on Capitol Hill
Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey, spoke on Capitol Hill about the situation children face in countries such as Honduras. She describes what she witnessed and learned from the people living in this dangerous country and urges the US government to change the processing of these children from illegal immigrants to refugees.
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Tagged All Campus Reads, Community Reads Programs, Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario
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Speaking up for Refugee Children
Sonia Nazario is speaking out for the thousands of children coming into the US illegally from Central America. Sonia’s 2002 Pulitzer-Winning article, Enrique’s Journey, followed the path Enrique took from Honduras to the US to reunite with his mother. At that time many children came to the US to follow parents for economic reasons. The current influx of children are coming here to escape violence and threats on their lives, says Sonia Nazario.
Read More »Sonia Nazario Discusses Border Town Crisis
As the number of children crossing the border alone increases dramatically, Sonia Nazario has been discussing the reasons they travel into the US. She explains the situation in Central America is filled with gang violence and threats of murder which is causing the wave of children crossing the border to surge.
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Also posted in Enrique's Journey, Uncategorised
Tagged All Campus Reads, Community Reads Programs, Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario
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Sonia Nazario Discusses Enrique’s Journey with NPR
Catch a conversation with Pulitzer winner Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey, with Robin Young of NPR’s Here and Now. Listen as they catch up with Enrique’s continuing struggle to bring his family together in the United States and discuss the many difficulties facing the children pouring into America to reunite with their parents. To listen to Sonia’s interview click HERE.
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Also posted in Common Reads Programs, Community Reads Programs, Enrique's Journey, Uncategorised
Tagged All Campus Reads, Community Reads Programs, Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario
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Sonia Nazario Speaks about Child Immigration
The television show, America with Jorge Ramos, recently interviewed Sona Nazario about, Enrique’s Journey, and the dramatically increasing numbers of children coming into the US without a parent or guardian. The influx of drug cartels as well as gangs that force these young children to smuggle drugs into the US makes them refugees rather than illegal immigrants, according to Sonia Nazario. She also gives an update on Enrique, the protagonist in Enrique’s Journey, and his current situation in the US.
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Also posted in All Campus Reads Programs, Common Reads Programs, Community Reads Programs, Enrique's Journey
Tagged All Campus Reads, Community Reads Programs, Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario
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Biographies vs. Beach Books: Trends in All Campus Reads Selections
In the last decade, common reading programs have become a mainstay for library programming, literary organizations, and college campuses. The rise in First Year Experience, Freshman Reads, and All Campus Reads programs seems to correspond to the decline of core curricula in higher education — as colleges distance themselves from core curricula they find that students still need to have something in common academically. Books in common type programs on campuses have been a convenient answer to that need.
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Also posted in All Campus Reads Programs, Andrew McCarthy, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Corban Addison, Enrique's Journey, Issue #3, Jamie Ford, Newsletters, Piper Kerman, Reyna Grande, Songs of Willow Frost, The Distance Between Us, The Longest Way Home
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Young Adult Version of Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey Now Available
With an estimated one million children living illegally in the United Stated, and nearly one in four of the nation’s elementary school students of immigrant status, Pulitzer Prize winner Sonia Nazario’s moving tale of one boy’s journey has met widespread acclaim and become a national bestseller. In Enrique’s Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunited With His Mother, Sonia Nazario’s compelling story has been adapted for a younger audience. The YA version contains a new epilogue, updating readers on where Enrique is today, and on his life since his story become national news. With the immigration raging as a hot-button political issue, Enrique’s Journey brings to light the daily struggles of immigrants, legal and otherwise, and the complicated choices they face to survive.
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