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1) Red midnight
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told to make a doll like a Pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's Jewish mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom--much to Molly's embarrassment.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Natasha: Im a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. Im definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him wont be my story. Daniel: Ive always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents high expectations. Never...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The powerful story of a child refugee seeking asylum in America Thirteen-year-old Manuelito is a gentle boy who lives with his family in a tiny village in the Guatemalan countryside. But life is far from idyllic: PACs--armed civil patrol--are a constant presence in the streets, and terrifying memories of the country's war linger in the villagers' collective conscience. Things deteriorate further when government-backed drug gangs arrive and take control...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, teenager Lee Chin and his father leave China for California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where Lee defies his father's wishes and saves money to free his younger sister from slavery in China, then brings her to join him in beginning a new life in America. Includes historical note about the Chinese who helped build the transcontinental railroad.
10) A bear for Bimi
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Bimi's family immigrates to America and moves into Evie's neighborhood, not everybody is welcoming. But with the help of kind neighbors and a teddy bear, a friendship is born"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A beautiful, lyrical story about a girl who moves from her home in Central America to the United States, and everything she leaves behind and longs for—especially her Abuela—as she makes a new life. Rocio has grown up in Central America, but now she and her family are moving to the United States. Rocio does her best to adjust to a new way of living, but there are many things she misses from her old life—Abuela’s cooking,...
12) Kween
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A searing, joyful YA debut about a queer Cambodian American teen's journey to find her voice and step into her legacy, perfect for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Elizabeth Acevedo. Soma Kear's verses have gone viral.
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