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America, My New Home
By Monica Gunning and 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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is good for grades 3-6–Gunning's short, narrative poems capture the wonderment of a child as she leaves her home in Jamaica and moves to America. She is dazzled by the Statue of Liberty, who welcomes me/to step on freedom's soil and live/my dreams." The strange languages, the speed of life, and the wide-awake city amaze her. This is a great book that has wonderful pictures.