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    Here I Am
    Here I Am
    Here I Am
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    Here I Am

    By Patti Kim

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    Newly arrived from their faraway homeland, a boy and his family enter into the lights, noise, and traffic of a busy American city. The language is unfamiliar. Food, habits, games, and gestures are puzzling. They boy clings tightly to his special keepsake from home and wonders how he will find his way. How will he once again become the happy, confident kid he used to be? Walk in his shoes as he takes the first tentative steps toward discovering joy in his new world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJul 25, 2014
    ISBN9781479518937
    Here I Am
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    Patti Kim

    Patti Kim was born in Pusan, Korea, in 1970 and immigrated to the United States in 1974. She was the Diane Cleaver Fellow at Ledwig House, the New York writers' colony. A Cab Called Reliable is her first novel. It won the 1997 Towson University Prize for Literature and was a nominee for the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction. She lives in Potomac, Maryland.

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    • 5/5
      There is no text in this story. The illustrations shows a boy at the airport with his family. They arrived to a new city where seems they are moving to. His face doesn't seem happy, he seats sad by the window, and observes the new environment. One day, he chases a girl that accidentally took his "magical red coin", as he goes after her he finds a lot of fun things he could do in the city. He ends up finding the girl and they became friends.
    • 5/5
      A story told without a narrator and almost no text. Whimsical illustrations tell a complete story of finding home again, holding onto the past and embracing the future as a young boy adjusts to his new life in an American City.
    • 3/5
      Here I Am is a wonderful story about the diversity in our communities. The book does not have many words A boy and his family recently move to New York from an Asia, and is having a difficult time adjusting to a new place. The boy is lonely and bored his only comfort is a seed that he carries from in his pocket that reminds him of his home. When the seed lands in the pocket of a girl, he learns to embrace the food and pigeons and city smells.This book is a reminder of children who have moved to our schools from other countries.
    • 4/5
      A wordless story with evocative illustrations that effectively captures the confusion, anxiety, and hope of a young new immigrant.
    • 4/5
      It was cool that this book just pictured and had no words. Usually, picture books have words, but this book you had to observe what was going on from the photos.
    • 4/5
      Immigrants face daunting challenges.The world is a better place as they share their stories, and learn ours, too.

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