TY  - GEN
N2  - Cindy. Sarah. Sage. Three smart girls enter ninth grade at top schools. There they confront, for the first time, a world very different from the one they come from. A story of youthful adventure. The tumultuous emotions of coming of age. The anxiety of measuring up to the standards of their new communities. Armed with freshness and honesty, the girls pierce through the preconceived notions of a world, whose attitudes don't seem to encompass a larger sense of experience or history. An intense and intimate journey, Long Way from Home tackesl timely themes: How does a society steeped in traditions, ideas and biases of the past, learn to embrace diversity as a strenght? How do we rethink "belonging" to include differences? -- From container.
AB  - Cindy. Sarah. Sage. Three smart girls enter ninth grade at top schools. There they confront, for the first time, a world very different from the one they come from. A story of youthful adventure. The tumultuous emotions of coming of age. The anxiety of measuring up to the standards of their new communities. Armed with freshness and honesty, the girls pierce through the preconceived notions of a world, whose attitudes don't seem to encompass a larger sense of experience or history. An intense and intimate journey, Long Way from Home tackesl timely themes: How does a society steeped in traditions, ideas and biases of the past, learn to embrace diversity as a strenght? How do we rethink "belonging" to include differences? -- From container.
T1  - Long way from home
DA  - 2005.
CY  - [New York?] :
AU  - Kaul, Kavery.
AU  - Hunter, Marian Sears.
AU  - Costanzo, Sak.
AU  - Velez, Edin.
AU  - Blue, Nesya.
AU  - Ragazzi, Claudio.
CN  - HQ798
CN  - HQ798
PB  - Unlimited Cinema,
PP  - [New York?] :
LA  - In English with subtitles in French, Spanish.
PY  - 2005.
N1  - With the participation of Sarah Goher and the Goher family, Cindy Tan, the late Sokhear Tan and the Tan family, Sage Garner and the Garner family.
N1  - Special features: The making of Long way from home ; The girls -- four years later ; Preview.
ID  - 534177
KW  - Multiculturalism.
KW  - Muticultural education.
KW  - Cultural awareness.
KW  - Teenage girls.
TI  - Long way from home
ER  -