Catalog Search Results
1) Illegal
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 490L
Language
English
Description
Setting out to join his brother and sister in Europe, Ebo leaves Ghana, traveling through the Sahara Desert and dangerous streets of Tripoli before braving the merciless sea.
3) I'm new here
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In today's uncertain world, many families are leaving their home countries and seeking a better life in the United States. Immigrants from Mexico and Central America explores the stories of two boys who left their home countries to find a better life in the United States. Follow their journeys to find out why they left their homelands and understand the challenges they faced in moving to a new country."--
6) Finally seen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she used to eat.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Why are young people leaving their country to walk to the United States to seek a new, safe home? Over 100,000 such children have left Central America. This book of poetry helps us to understand why and what it is like to be them.
¿Por qué los jóvenes que salen de su país para caminar a los Estados Unidos para buscar un hogar nuevo y seguro? Más de 100.000 niños han salido de Centroamérica. Este libro de poesía nos ayuda a entender por qué...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
364 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kirsten's six-book series is bound in one volume. Kirsten Larson is a Swedish immigrant girl growing up in 1854 Minnesota. "With quiet strength and an open heart, she discovers the true meaning of home- and that love is the same in any language."--Cover, p.4.
10) Lubna and Pebble
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
460L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lubna's best friend is a pebble. Pebble always listens to her stories. Pebble always smiles when she feels scared. But when a lost little boy arrives in the World of Tents, Lubna realizes that he needs Pebble even more than she does"--
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
Español
Description
Moving from Mexico to New York, Areli tries to adjust to her new, fast-paced life in a diverse city where she, overcoming many obstacles, is now living the American dream, in this powerful, true immigration story.
12) The refuge
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story about finding refuge in a new friendship and a new home. "There's a new girl at school. She never stops looking up at the sky! She likes the stars and comets." Jeannette tells her mom about her new classmate, who also loves astronomy but seems sad. She realizes it's not easy to move to a new place. So the next day, at recess, Jeannette asks Iliana to play. At first, it's a little hard to communicate because Iliana is learning a new language....
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
96 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A moving picture book for older children and families that introduces a difficult topic, amplifying the voices and experiences of immigrant children detained at the border between Mexico and the US. The children's actual words (from publicly available court documents) are assembled to tell one heartbreaking story, in both English and Spanish (back to back). Each spread is illustrated in striking full-color by a different Latinx artist. A portion...
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young girl introduces herself to a new neighbor from Syria and bonds with him over shared interests in nature, birdwatching, and finding small treasures. His anxieties about his new life are eased when his knowledge from having pet pigeons in Syria helps save an injured cardinal. Polymer clay art depicts fall and winter scenes in a neighborhood where most residents are immigrants and where intergenerational friendships are strong."--
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2021].
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaginated) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Areli was just a baby, her mama and papa moved from Mexico to New York with her brother, Alex, to make a better life for the family-and when she was in kindergarten, they sent for her, too. Everything in New York was different. Gone were the Saturdays at Abuela's house, filled with cousins and sunshine. Instead, things were busy and fast and noisy. Areli's limited English came out wrong, and schoolmates accused her of being illegal. But with...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
273 pages, [8] pages of plates : colored illustrations, maps : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the journey of a Honduran teen who braved hardship and peril to reunite with his mother after she was forced to leave him behind and seek migratory work in the United States.
17) My tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A boy makes a connection with a plum tree after moving to a new home"--
18) Thao
Author
Publisher
Owlkids
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 420L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
""Thao" seems like a simple enough name. Only four letters-all of them belonging to many other names! And yet Thao had been called everything from "Tail" to "Theo" to "Towel." At one point, completely fed up, she decided it was time to try another name. Something "easy." Something like "Jennifer." But trying to be someone else only works for so long. And eventually "Jennifer" is swayed back to being herself when she opens her lunchbox and finds her...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
Español
Description
Follow the journey of immigrant and refugee children from leaky boat to a new country, a new school, and new friends in this simple counting book.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request