Still Waters in a Storm: The One-Room School Where Everyone Listens to Everyone
(eAudiobook)

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    [synopsis] => Previously published as Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible 

The unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher discover their voices and speak truth to power.

Still Waters in a Storm is an after-school program held in a small room in Bushwick, Brooklyn; it is a place for kids to practice reading and writing in English, Spanish, and Latin. For the students, many living in constant fear of deportation, Still Waters is a refuge. For Stephen Haff, a former public-school teacher, it is the sanctuary he built following a breakdown caused by bipolar depression. At Still Waters, all agreed that there would only be one rule: “Everyone listens to everyone.” And this has unlocked spectacular potential.

Since 2016, the students have been collectively translating Don Quixote into English, taking the Spanish tale - a story about a dreamer who never gives up - and adapting it into a bilingual musical. Six-year-old Sarah tells of her mother’s journey across the desert from Mexico riding on the back of a tiger. Alex, a very private teenager, sings her coming-out song to standing ovations. As the kids perform their work across NYC, they learn that they belong in this country - their voices amplifying to deliver a message of diversity, love, hope, and resilience essential to us all.
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