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Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl counts the things she sees as she and her father travel, sometimes on foot, sometimes on top of a train, and sometimes in other ways, stop while her father earns more money for the trip, and avoid soldiers and other dangers.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
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.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"The protagonist of this historical novel, which is set in the Shetland Islands and also New York City around 1840, is Christian Robertson, a crofter and son of a crofter (small, struggling tenant farmer). When Christian's brother frames him for the theft of a bag of coins, Christian must leave home and embark on a journey to return the coins and clear his name"--
65) 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
Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After her father is killed in a pogrom, twelve-year-old Sarah and her mother immigrate to America--but when her mother dies before they get through Ellis Island, and the authorities want to send her back to the old country, Sarah hides in the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Fleeing abusive relatives and extreme poverty in Mexico, young Santiago endures being detained by ICE while crossing the border into the United States.
69) Illegal
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juarez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Just before Chinese New Year, Dandan discovers that her family is moving to America, far away from her best friend Yueyue; before they leave Yueyue gives her a stack of red paper and a spool of string so she can share the art of paper cutting with Americans--and when Chinese New Year comes around again Dandan remembers Yueyue's gift and introduces her new friend Christina to this ancient art.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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2023 ALA Youth Media Awards
Rainbow Reads 2023: Young Adult
Sydney Taylor Book Award
Transgender Visibility
Rainbow Reads 2023: Young Adult
Sydney Taylor Book Award
Transgender Visibility
Description
"Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young emigrants goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. But there are obstacles...
72) Migrant
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Mexican boy tells of his journey to the U.S. with his family. They must face many dangers to cross the border, only to experience the uncertainty felt by all illegal immigrants.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Peijing and her family are adapting to their new life in Australia, but when cracks in her family life start to appear, she must find a way to cope with the uncertainties of her own little world and figure out where she fits in.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks eXplore, an imprint of Sourcebooks Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Demonstrates the importance of welcoming people from all over the world into the community with love, compassion, and acceptance. When we see someone new in our neighborhood, how can we help them feel safe and loved and important? How can we tell them, you're not alone? There are so many ways!
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Brings to life a not too distant history of immigration to Ellis Island. When it's time for nine-year-old Gittel and her mother to leave their homeland behind and go to America for the promise of a new life, a health inspection stops any chance of Gittel's mother joining her daughter on the voyage. Knowing she may never see her mother again, Gittel must find the courage within herself to leave her family behind"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Noura and her family, fleeing war in Syria, have been granted asylum in the United States, but they arrive in Florida to the chaos of the president's Muslim ban; twelve-year-old Jordyn is a member of the Christian church that is sponsoring the Alwan family, and Noura's student ambassador in middle school; their inevitable culture clash is made far worse by the wave of hate crimes unleashed by the Muslim ban, and personal problems of...
78) The big umbrella
Author
Publisher
Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
“A subtle, deceptively simple book about inclusion, hospitality, and welcoming the other.” Kirkus Reviews In the tradition of Alison McGhees Someday, beloved illustrator Amy June Bates makes her authorial debut alongside her eleven-year-old daughter with this timely and timeless picture book about acceptance.By the door there is an umbrella. It is big. It is so big that when it starts to rain there is room for everyone underneath. It doesnt matter...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
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Description
Un nino y su padre cruzan la frontera entre Estados Unidos y Mexico cada dos sabados, visitando sus lugares favoritos, pasando tiempo con familiares y amigos, y compartiendo la responsabilidad del cuidado comunitario
80) Finding Papa
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"This poignant and lyrical debut picture book based on the author’s own experience and illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Thi Bui follows young Mai and her mother’s perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa—who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family. No one can make Mai laugh like her Papa! She loves playing their favorite game—the crocodile chomp chomp! But then Papa leaves Vietnam in search of a new home for...
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