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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.
2) Solito
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Desde su pequeño pueblo en El Salvador hasta llega a la frontera con Estados Unidos, la aventura de Javier Zamora es un viaje de tres mil millas. Va a reunirse con sus padres, una travesía que en su imaginación infantil durará solo dos semanas, pero que en realidad le tomará dos meses. Viajará solo y, como cualquier niño de nueve anos, será incapaz de preveer el peligro que acecha: los arriesgados viajes en bote, el implacable desierto, las...
4) 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
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls largely ignored. At last, the calls for justice become too loud to ignore when the body of a star student and refugee--the Syrian teenager Razan Elkader--is positioned deliberately in a mosque. Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas Seif of the Denver Police are...
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."--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Burdened with bundles and baskets, a million or more immigrant children passed through the often grim halls of Ellis Island. Having left behind their homes in Europe and other parts of the world, they made the voyage to America by steamer. Some came with parents or guardians. A few came as stowaways. But however they traveled, they found themselves a part of one of the grandest waves of human migration that the world has ever known. Children of Ellis...
10) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
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.
15) 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.
17) Arctic chill
Author
Series
Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply...
19) 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...
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