Kids Like Me: Voices of the Immigrant Experience

Kids Like Me profiles more than 20 real foreign-born adolescents and young adults now living in U. S. communities. Each chapter contains a short personal narrative told in the voice of the youth who is being profiled. These stories are intended to help U.S-born students ages 10 years and up to understand the backgrounds of classmates from other cultures, foster intercultural awareness and sensitivity and encourage individual and community action to assist newcomers in their adjustment to the US. Written in a very accessible style, Kids Like Me also includes discussion questions, self-directed activities and research ideas that can be used in a classroom, club or community setting. Photos, maps and graphics add to the appeal of the text.

Judith M. Blohm is a cross-cultural educator and training consultant in the Washington, DC area. She has taught all pre-college levels in the US and abroad, and trained teachers, other professionals and volunteers to work in multicultural settings with the Peace Corps, State Department, and other organizations. Judee is the author and editor of numerous training materials, has contributed to various books in the intercultural field, and authored the young children’s book Where in the World are You Going? (Intercultural Press, 1996.) Terri Lapinsky is an international educator, trainer, project and program manager. She has worked in the fields of ESL and multicultural education doing teacher training, curriculum, materials and staff development. Her career has included teaching in public secondary schools, colleges and universities; training youth program staff and serving overseas as a country program director for the Peace Corps and the American trade union movement. Terri currently lives and works in Brazil.