from markon

Just Like Us by Helen Thorpe is the story of four Mexican-American girls in the first decade of the twenty-first century as they graduate from high school in Denver, Colorado and move into adulthood. The girls are from working class families; two of the young women are here legally & two are not....

from allison.sivak

So beautifully written, with honest efforts at allowing both sides to speak, although Thorpe acknowledges that her sympathies lie with the four girls she interviews. Powerful, intelligent, riveting.

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Just Like Us tells the story of four high school students whose parents entered this country illegally from Mexico. We meet the girls on the eve of their senior prom in Denver, Colorado. All four of the girls have grown up in the United States, and all four want to live the American dream, but on...

from lisaflip

This was an impressive undertaking by Colorado's first lady, Helen Thorpe. She followed four young Mexican women (two US citizens and two who are undocumented) in the Denver Public School system and on into college. The book was very well researched for years and I got a great glimpse into the li...

from michellebarton

Denver's own Helen Thorpe does a great job of humanizing the issue of immigrants who have entered this country illegally and the long term affect this action has on the lives of their children. She chronicles the personal experiences of four intelligent, ambitious girls from Mexico who were broug...