First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great - Hardcover

Wallace, Rich; Wallace, Sandra Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316515248 ISBN 13: 9780316515245

Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers US, 2018

Synopsis

Albert Einstein. Mazie Hirono. Dikembe Mutombo. Celia Cruz. Madeleine Albright. Nikola Tesla. These are just a few of the names young readers will find in the pages of First Generation. Featuring 36 incredible individuals, this book tells the stories of artists and athletes, scientists and musicians, activists and inventors, educators and journalists, all immigrants and refugees to the United States of America. Because of their achievements and their determination to change the world, our country has been made a far better place. And after reading their inspiring stories, readers will hopefully see how they can become change-makers themselves.

About this title

About the Author

Investigative journalists Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace are award-winning novelists and nonfiction authors of books like Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights and Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story. Sandra is a former news anchor and ESPN sportscaster. The daughter of a refugee, she became a US citizen in 2016. Rich was a longtime senior editor at Highlights magazine. Both Sandra and Rich are members of the advisory council for the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College and are founding members of the Keene Immigrant and Refugee Partnership. They live in New Hampshire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers US
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316515248
• ISBN 13: 9780316515245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Nowicka Agata
• Number of pages: 96