"Everyone has a story.
Everyone has known
happiness and hope,
fear and sadness.
Everyone in America
is a citizen of the world." (p. 74)
Award-winning children's author Maria Testa questions what it truly means to be an American in Something About America. This unique juvenile novel written in poetry is narrated by a thirteen-year-old girl who fled Kosova, Yugoslavia with her family as a child. When immigrants from a nearby town are persecuted, the family and community tries to make sense of it all. This quick read provides a fresh outlook at a refugee family's experience for those students interested in immigration or American Studies.
(Vairo Library Curr Coll PS3570.E847S66 2005)