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2) The arrival
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.
3) Little Bee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
Author
Series
Publisher
Reagan Arthur Books, Little, Brown and company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Follows ten-year-old Zimbabwe native, Darling, as she escapes the closed schools and paramilitary police control of her homeland in search of opportunity and freedom with an aunt in America.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from its desperate beginning in a shtetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
15) Un Mundo nuevo
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his father leads him on a magical trip of discovery through new fallen snow, a young boy who emigrated from his warm island home overcomes fears about living in New York.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Still sad and frightened after living in Poland through World War I and the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Devorah Lehrman, her younger sister, and other Jewish orphans travel with Isaac Ochberg to South Africa and make a new start.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This "tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother in Honduras along with her four year old twin brothers. Her mother is sending money home from Texas where...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal. This is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by the author of the way we live now. The police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board. Into the feverous landscape of the only city in the world where people from a different country with a different language and a different culture have taken...
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