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Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers...
Author
Publisher
North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In August of 1862, the United States was bitterly fighting a dreadful war to rid the country of slavery. At the same time, new states in the Midwest and west struggled with the tensions between settlers and Native Americans. In Minnesota, the Dakota were pushed beyond human endurance. Starving and without any hope of help, they lashed out. Hundreds of settlers were caught in the middle. This book tells the story of two young girls trying to survive...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"My Words Flew Away Like Birds is both a poignant and heartening story about the experience of a child who moves to a new country. Everything feels new and strange to her, and though she has learned some of the language, when she tries to speak, all her words fly away. In the end, our heroine finds she doesn't need a lot of words to make a new friend. It is a story of finding a sense of belonging in a new place, resilience, and human connection. An...
4) Finally seen
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
5) My tree
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A boy makes a connection with a plum tree after moving to a new home"--
6) You are life
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Every child is bursting with amazing possibilities and poet Bao Phi celebrates the complex identity of the children of immigrants and refugees.
7) I'm new here
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For fans of Grey's Anatomy and Seven Days in June, this dazzling debut novel by Shirlene Obuobi explores that time in your life when you must decide what you want, how to get it, & who you are, all while navigating love, friendship, and the realization that the path you're traveling is going to be a bumpy ride.--
9) Someone new
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When three children, Jesse, Jason, and Emma, are confronted with new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions, and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima." --
10) Blackwater Falls
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and powerful crime series, introducing Detective Inaya Rahman. Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls largely ignored. At last, the calls for justice become too loud to ignore when the body of a star student and refugee--the...
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage, not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children. And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution...
12) Illegal
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria:...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Why are young people leaving their country to walk to the United States to seek a new, safe home? Over 100,000 such children have left Central America. This book of poetry helps us to understand why and what it is like to be them.
¿Por qué los jóvenes que salen de su país para caminar a los Estados Unidos para buscar un hogar nuevo y seguro? Más de 100.000 niños han salido de Centroamérica. Este libro de poesía nos ayuda a entender por qué...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she used to eat.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Though they may speak different languages, kids from all over the world come together to enjoy the shared pastime of tea in this delicious book for young readers. When five-year-old Luli joins her new English as a Second Language class, the playroom is quiet. Luli can't speak English, neither can anyone else. That's when she has a brilliant idea to host a tea party and bring them all together. Luli removes her teapot, thermos, and teacups from her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mar�ia Emilia's life turns upside down when she and her family immigrate from Argentina to the US. How can she make new friends when simply speaking English all day is exhausting? Luckily, she has the company of a stray dog in the neighborhood, who happens to look and act just like her beloved pet cat back home. Eventually, it turns out the pup isn't a stray after all--she belongs to Mar�ia Emilia's new neighbor, Donovan. In order to spend more...
20) Arctic chill
Author
Series
Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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