Thorpe, Helen

Follows the lives of three women over the course of twelve years, exploring their service in the military, experiences in overseas combat, challenges with maintaining connections with their families, and difficulties with resuming life as civilians.

"Traces the lives of twenty-two immigrant teens throughout the course of a year at Denver's South High School who attended a specially created English Language Acquisition class and who were helped to adapt through strategic introductions to American culture"--OCLC.

The account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendships, their personal lives, and their families.

Discusses the lives and experiences of four Mexican women who have spent the majority of their lives in the United States, attending the same high school in Denver, Colorado, but only two of them have legal documentation.

Traces the journeys of four young Mexican women coming of age in Denver whose prospects for college and careers are shaped by their immigration statuses and heated debates about the rights of legal and illegal immigrants.