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Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.
2) Test
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire life, a powerful man runs a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the lead in boycotting the test.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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AANHPI Heritage Month for Teens
All Together Now - Ages 19+
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
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All Together Now - Ages 19+
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
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Description
Shares the author's experiences as an only child born to a single mother in Korea, who abruptly moved to the United States as a teenager and the difficulties she had fitting in in both countries.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When their village is destroyed in the Guatemalan Civil War, Tomasa and her family, except her mother and brother, who have been taken by the authorities, begin the long trek north in search of somewhere they will be safe.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California--their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar words like "undocumented" and "inequality." She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna...
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