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Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the flood of immigration into the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on the experiences of the youngest immigrants, both on their journeys and in their new country.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, twelve-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually to the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century.
The story of the Nolan family, including daughter Francie, and life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century.
A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life ... If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience ... It is a poignant and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press, a BookSparks imprint
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As two brothers emigrate out of Russia to escape anti-Semitism, one chooses America and the other Israel/Palestine. The generations move forward in the twentieth century, from New York to Brighton Beach and Los Angeles, as children and grandchildren assimilate into a new culture. A sweeping tale of love, faith and tradition, Odessa, Odessa reveals how the mysterious ties that hold a family together can help them survive the heartache of separation...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"“Pogrebin writes with sympathy and affection...A wise, funny look behind the curtains of a family that, it would seem, has little to be ashamed of.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review An intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family mired in secrets, haunted by their dread of shame and stigma, determined to hide their every imperfection—and in denial or despair when they couldn’t. “The...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...
12) Babel
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An accident in Morocco sets off a chain of links that connect people in Mexico, Japan, and California, despite distance and cultural differences
A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take...
13) Still dreaming
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A child dreams of a life without borders after he and his parents are forced to leave their home during the Mexican Repatriation."--
"In the first children's book to describe the long-forgotten chapter of US history known as Mexican Repatriation, a boy and his family leave their beloved home to avoid being separated by the government. En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como...
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