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Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.
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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