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by Avery Yue, Rita Ozeruga (Translator)

Overview

The Friends' Guide emerged when our newcomer students attending our tutoring sessions expressed a need to understand not just their school material, but their school itself. It became solidified when students said they did not feel like they belonged in their school, and felt alone in their struggles, unsure of what solutions might help or were available to them. 

This book is a collection of the best advice, experience, and resources our nonprofit multilingual tutoring and enrichment group, led by teens, has provided to our newcomer students over the past three years.

The Friends' Guide is the ultimate reference book for refugee and newcomer middle and high school students starting a new school in the U.S, learning English as a second language, and seeking inclusion in their new school communities. Using an evidenced-based approach of messages from older students and essential tips derived from our student run nonprofit providing over 12,000 hours of multilingual tutoring and enrichment services to newcomer students, this book captures the strengths of immigrant teens, shines a light into their lives, and through messages from newcomer students themselves, lifts their voices, providing essential support for their success at their new schools. This book contains the most essential information teens need for success at school from teens themselves.   Written in 8 languages-English, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Arabic-with over 10,000 copies sold in 2023 alone.

This book is dedicated to the amazing newcomer and refugee students who have shared their stories and lives with us over the years. To these awe-inspiring students, this book is our way of saying you have more friends than you know and inspired more people than is possible to count. Welcome to your new school, we are so excited to see your success!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781961986077
Publisher:	New Path Publishing
Publication date:	07/28/2023
Series:	The Friends' Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	78
File size:	494 KB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years
Language:	Ukrainian

About the Author

Avery Yue founded Willow Way Tutoring & Enrichment, an award-winning multilingual 501(c)3 nonprofit that primarily serves K-12th grade newcomer students in the spring of 2020 with her brother, Alexander Yue. Since then, she has expanded the nonprofit to reach students from California to Kabul as well as expanded its services from multilingual online tutoring to in-person events, including free sports physicals and writing circles. Apart from launching and directing many of these programs, Avery has also personally tutored and worked with newcomer students for over 1,000 hours. Avery is the recipient of the Congressional Gold medal (2022), a four time recipient of the President's Volunteer Service Gold award (2020,2021,2022, and 2023), and a recipient of the United Nations Association USA Ambassador award (2022). Her nonprofit has received the Most Valued Partner award from San Juan Unified School in 2022 and 2023. Avery's writing has also been nationally recognized. She is the recipient of a Scholastic Arts & Writing's 2022 national gold medal for her prose writing, awarded to less than 0.3% of submissions and "the nation's longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens". She is an alumnus of Iowa Young Writers Studio, Kenyon Review's Young Writers Workshop and Adroit Summer Mentorship program.

Table of Contents

Preface | 1

Introduction | 2

1-What It's Really Like to Be a Newcomer Student | 4

Messages From Students | 6

Write a Message of Your Own | 15

2-Finding Belonging at Your New School | 16

Messages From Students | 16

Write a Message of Your Own | 27

3-Tools and Resources You Need for School in a New Language | 28

Our favorite tools and resources, how to get them, and how to use them | 29

4-What We Wished Someone Had Told Us Before Starting School | 36

Key People | 38

How a School Day Works | 42

Attendance | 44

Meals | 46

What to Do If You Feel Sick | 48

Lockers | 49

What to Bring to School | 50

The Library | 52

What to Expect in The Classroom | 53

Homework & Assignments | 54

Emergency Drills | 56

Health & Wellness | 57

Our Top Tips for Top Grades | 59

5-How Do I Say...? | 62

6-You're Ready! | 65

Parting Words from Our Students | 67

About the Author | 69