big dreams and brave journeys. we will have brook reading from her book and we will be in conversation with friends and have a short q and a afterwards. brooke hauser has written for the new york times and other publications. she is originally from miami, florida. francisco heardy has worked in said deputy editor and written for harper s atlantic commonwealth and progressive and is teaching at the university. please turn off yourself phones and as you have seen, c-span booktv is filming the event tonight. for the q&a we will be passing around the microphone so please wait for the microphone to reach you. thank you so much. please welcome broke hauser. [applause] we are here to discuss brooke s new book. it is about just to give a capsule summary, a high school in brooklyn called international high school which specializes in the education of immigrants. brooke spent much time at the school chronicleing the life of teens. she will do a reading of a portion later but i want