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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
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiv, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Determined to take fate into their own hands, a group of these young undocumented immigrants risked their safety to "come out" about their status?sparking a transformative movement, engineering a seismic shift in public opinion on immigration, and inspiring other social movements across the country. Their quest for permanent legal protection under the so-called "Dream Act," stalled. But in 2012, the Obama administration issued a landmark, new immigration...
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 470 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arriving simultaneously in a tiny village in Cumbria, England, Samantha Flood and Miguel Madero pursue investigations of the links between the community and their families, endeavors that reshape their senses of identity.
26) 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"--
27) 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
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 232 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Gina was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, in 2011, she left behind her parents, siblings, and children, all of whom are U.S. citizens. Despite having once had a green card, Gina was removed from the only country she had ever known. In Deported Americans legal scholar and former public defender Beth C. Caldwell tells Gina's story alongside those of dozens of other Dreamers, who are among the hundreds of thousands who have been deported to Mexico...
Author
Series
Crónicas Anagrama volume 118
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
144 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
En 2016, el autor entrevistó en Nueva York y Los Ángeles a diez inmigrantes que habían entrado en Estados Unidos entre 2011 y 2014 para reunirse con sus familias. Cuando cruzaron la frontera tenían entre diez y diecisiete años y procedían de Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala. Este es un «libro de no ficción, aunque emplea técnicas narrativas de la ficción para proteger a los protagonistas», y pretende dar voz a quienes no la tienen, poner...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged))
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning children's book author Rene Colato Lainez teams up again with illustrator Fabricio Vanden Broeck to explore the experiences of newcomers in U.S. schools and affirm that yes! They do belong here"--
"An immigrant boy stands "in the middle of a whirlwind of children," and wonders where he is supposed to go. Finally, a woman speaks to him in a language he doesn't understand and takes him to his classroom. A boy named Carlos helps orient...
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...
Publisher
Shout Mouse Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
303 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During a time of heated immigration debate and unrest, this book is an opportunity to hear directly from youth who are often in the headlines but whose stories don't get told in full. Sixteen young people from the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) in Washington, D.C. came together to tell their own stories of immigration and transformation in comics form. The result is this side-by-side bilingual collection of graphic memoirs that not only builds...
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xxv, 323 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
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
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
Español
Description
Newly arrived from Colombia, Isabella's first day of school in the United States is cancelled because of snow and when Isabella notices a girl playing outside she makes a new friend, despite the language barrier.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
256 pages
Language
English
Description
"From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a crucial, searing story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and the power of individuals to band together to overcome even the most cruel and unjust circumstances"--
Author
Publisher
Delecorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Edición adaptada para lectores jóvenes
Physical Desc
292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 21 cm
Language
Español
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
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
[xv, 265] pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Primera ediciaon.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a crucial, searing story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and thepower of individuals to band together to overcome even the most cruel and unjust circumstances."--
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, Llc
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 9 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Clara arrived in America, she didn't know that young women had to go to work and grow up fast. But that didn't stop Clara. She went to night school and helped her family by sewing in a factory. She never accepted that girls should be treated poorly with low pay, so she led the largest walkout of women workers the country had seen. She learned that everyone deserved a fair chance, to stand and fight for what she wanted, and, most importantly,...
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