Jose Antonio Vargas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"My name is Jose Antonio Vargas. I was born in the Philippines. When I was twelve, my mother sent me to the United States to live with her parents. While applying for a driver's permit, I found out my papers were fake. More than two decades later, I am still here illegally, with no clear path to American citizenship. To some people, I am the "most famous illegal" in America. In my mind, I am only one of an estimated 11 million human beings whose uncertain...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In this young readers adaptation of his adult memoir Dear America, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas tells his story, in light of the 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. Jose Antonio Vargas was only twelve years old when he was brought to the United States from the Philippines to live with his grandparents. He didn t know it, but he was sent to the U.S. illegally. When...
Author
Publisher
Artisan
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A celebration of Filipino culture and cuisine includes recipes for such dishes as cured tuna with grilled pork, sour shrimp soup, coconut-stewed taro leaves, garlic fried rice, beef in spiced chocolate sauce, duck leg stew, and candied sweet potatoes. --