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Title details for America, My New Home by Monica Gunning - Available

America, My New Home

by Monica Gunning
Ken Condon
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From her Caribbean island birthplace, a young girl carries a dream and journeys to a new land that is at once puzzling, frightening, and inspiring. In twenty-three compelling poems, Jamaican-born poet Monica Gunning tells her immigrant's story with gentle humor, grace, and a child's sense of wonder. She describes a place where skyscrapers, rather than the moon, light the night; where people dress in woolens, ready for snow; where no one knows your name. Yet this same place offers exciting treasures: dizzying amusement park rides, stirring symphony concerts, flashy circus performers, towering cathedrals, and captivating art museums that speak to those who linger. Above all, this new land is place where "hope glows, a beacon / guiding ocean-deep dreamers / from storm surfs to shore."

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.5
  • Lexile® Measure:790
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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