Marina Budhos Livres

Through fourteen intimate conversations and various short interviews, teenagers from diverse backgrounds share their personal struggles and triumphs. The author, drawing from her own multicultural heritage, captures the unique stories that reflect the challenges and resilience of youth across the globe, highlighting the universal themes of identity and belonging.

When a teenage girl’s single mom is taken by ICE, everything changes—all of her hopes and dreams for the future turn into survival. Seventeen-year-old Rania is shaken awake in her family's apartment in Brooklyn. ICE is at the door, taking her mother away. But Ammi has done everything right, hasn’t she? Their asylum case is fine. This was supposed to be Rania’s greatest summer: hanging out with her best friend, Fatima, and getting ready for college in the fall. But now, none of that is certain. Now, along with her younger brother, Kamal, and a new friend, Carlos, Rania must figure out how to survive. In this vivid exploration of what happens when the country you have put your hopes into is fast shutting down, award-winning author Marina Budhos shows us how one girl bursting with dreams navigates secrets, love, and the lure of the open road.

In the tumult of 1970s New York City, seventh graders are bussed from their neighborhood in Queens to integrate a new school in South Jamaica. Jamila Clarke. Josie Rivera. Francesca George. Three mixed-race girls, close friends whose immigrant parents worked hard to settle their families in a neighborhood with the best schools. The three girls are outsiders there, but they have each other. Now, at the start seventh grade, they are told they will be part of an experiment, taking a long bus ride to a brand-new school built to "mix up the black and white kids." Their parents don't want them to be experiments. Francesca's send her to a private school, leaving Jamila and Josie to take the bus ride without her. While Francesca is testing her limits, Josie and Jamila find themselves outsiders again at the new school. As the year goes on, the Spanish girls welcome Josie, while Jamila develops a tender friendship with a boy--but it's a relationship that can exist only at school.

When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe’s Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, here is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways. Time line, source notes, bibliography, index.

An extraordinary and timely novel, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, examines what it’s like to grow up under surveillance in America. Be careful what you say and who you say it to. Anyone might be a watcher. Naeem is a Bangledeshi teenager living in Queens who thinks he can charm his way through anything. But then mistakes catch up with him. So do the cops, who offer him an impossible choice: spy on his Muslim neighbors and report back to them on shady goings-on, or face a police record. Naeem wants to be a hero—a protector. He wants his parents to be proud of him. But as time goes on, the line between informing and entrapping blurs. Is he saving or betraying his community? Inspired by actual surveillance practices in New York City and elsewhere, Marina Budhos’s extraordinary and timely novel examines what it’s like to grow up with Big Brother always watching. Naeem’s riveting story is as vivid and involving as today’s headlines. Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, We Need Diverse Books Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book YALSA Best YA Fiction for Young Adults “A fast-moving, gripping tale.” —SLJ, Starred

The story revolves around the friendship of three immigrant girls from diverse backgrounds who bond in a small New Jersey town, united by their mothers' domestic jobs. Their close-knit relationship faces challenges when one girl's mother is wrongfully accused of stealing a valuable heirloom, putting their loyalty and trust to the test. The narrative explores themes of friendship, cultural identity, and the struggles of immigrant families, highlighting the impact of societal pressures on personal connections.

Haller geht es vor allem darum, die Reportage nicht als abgehobenes Kunstwerk, sondern als praktikable Form für die Tageszeitung zu etablieren. (Sendeschluss)§§Jedem, der sich mit der journalistischen Königsdisziplin Reportage beschäftigen will, sei Hallers Beitrag nachdrücklich zur Lektüre empfohlen. (Fachjournalist)§§Michael Haller hat das Lehrbuch, das Volontäre wie Studierende gleichermaßen nutzen, grundlegend überarbeitet und neueste Trends berücksichtigt. (journalismus.compact)§§Auf 332 Seiten beleuchtet Haller die Reportage aus jedem erdenklichen Blickwinkel. (Medien selber machen)

zu den Vorauflagen:§§Das Handbuch gehört zu den Klassikern und ist das umfassendste Werk zum Thema Interview. (Journalist)§§Nützlich sind vor allem die dargestellten Techniken der Interviewführung mit verschiedenen (auch nonverbalen) Kommunikationsebenen und Rollenspielen. (Medium Magazin)§§Es gibt Bücher, die muss man einfach im Schrank haben. (Jugendpresse Sachsen)§§Dieses Fachbuch lässt keine Informationswünsche offen. (Fachjournalist)§§Das Buch des Leipziger Journalistik-Professors referiert im ersten Teil historische Entwicklungen der Interview-Technik, der zweite Teil wendet sich der Praxis des Interviewens zu. Darlegungen zur Vorbereitung und Durchführung von Interviews sowie der benachbarten Formen Befragung und Gespräch machen das Buch auch und gerade für PR-Professionals wichtig, führt das Interview in den PR-Publikationen eine verkümmerte Randexistenz. Interviews mit Interviewspezialisten (unter anderem mit Spiegel - Interviewer Dieter Wild) Setzen dem lehrreichen, aber unterhaltsam zu lesenden Fachbuch ein zusätzliches Glanzlicht auf. (Literatur Public Relations, 2006/07)§§Aufgrund des komplexen Themenspektrums eignet sich dieses Buch auch für die Bereiche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Unternehmensberatung und Medienpädagogik, und nicht zuletzt der vielen spannenden historischen Interview- Auszüge und deren Analysen wegen zum Schmökern ganz einfach für jedermann. (PC Video, 02/2009)