Books by Helen Thorpe and Complete Book Reviews

Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
Helen Thorpe, Author . Scribner $26.99 (387p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3893-6
Two new books follow the fates of young Latinos in the U.S. and examine how many are marginalized by education, immigration and incarceration policies. Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America Helen Thorpe ....
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Helen Thorpe. Scribner, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4516-6810-0
Journalist Thorpe (Just Like Us) tells the moving story of three women in the Indiana National Guard who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. Following her subjects from 2001 to 2013, Thorpe draws on interviews, personal correspondence, emails, diaries,...
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Helen Thorpe, read by Donna Postel. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 16 hrs., $49.99 ISBN 978-1-63379-196-1
Thorpe traces the lives of three women in the Indiana National Guard who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, highlighting how profoundly military service changed their lives and the lives of their families. Reader Postel keeps a steady pace, but her...
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The Newcomers: Finding Refuge
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
Helen Thorpe. Scribner, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5909-1
The latest work of narrative nonfiction from Thorpe (Soldier Girls) brings readers face to face with the global refugee crisis through the story of a Denver English-acquisition class composed of teenage refugees from all over the world. Set against...
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