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1) All my rage
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else...
Author
Language
English
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Description
An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker, and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident.
An immigrant boy; a middle-aged housewife; a social worker in Las Vegas; a wounded soldier. By the time we realize how these voices will connect, the impossible and perhaps the unbearable has already happened. It is a boomtown...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.
"Evelyn Wang, a flustered immigrant mother, is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. The unlikely hero must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight through the splintering timelines of the multiverse to save her home, her family,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arriving on the American prairie in the hope of making a new home, Nora, a little girl from Russia, struggles with loneliness until Papa brings her a dozen chicks and two geese who follow Nora everywhere she goes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A smart but insecure girl gets the chance to escape her suburban life when she is given a scholarship to a prestigious school, where she gains entry into a clique alongside a girl who is tired of being eclipsed by her own false popularity.
9) Hidden
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alix is faced with a huge moral dilemma when she helps pull an illegal Iraqi immigrant from the incoming tide on the coastal English island where she lives.
Author
Publisher
Pinata Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates, in Spanish and English, a telephone conversation in which young Estrellita, who has recently moved to Brooklyn, New York, tells her grandmother, who still lives in Puerto Rico, all about her adventures in and near Manhattan.
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