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"When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy, as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of guilt and responsibility she will carry with her throughout...
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English
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"This compelling approach to the immigration debate takes the reader behind the blaring headlines and into communities grappling with the reality of new immigrants and the changing nature of American identity. Ali Noorani, the Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, interviews nearly fifty local and national leaders from law enforcement, business, immigrant, and faith communities to illustrate the challenges and opportunities they face....
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English
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"Born on an island off the cost of Hiroshima around 1908, Midori Shimoda died in North Carolina in 1996, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for two decades. A photographer, he was incarcerated in a Department of Justice prison during WWII under suspicion of being a spy for Japan. From his birth to contract laborer/picture-bride parents to his immigration and prewar life in Seattle's Nihonmachi, to wartime incarceration and postwar resettlement...
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English
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"From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, comes a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places in The Matchmaker's Gift. Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates....
66) Imagine
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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"When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet."--Jacket.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"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....
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English
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"The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but...
71) Honolulu
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
73) Immigrants
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
92 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
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English
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Español
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Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. They ll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to safely cross the border - la frontera - and to make a home for themselves in a new land.
Publisher
Gold Bell Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Answers many questions Latin American immigrants from about life in the United States-- including how to get US residency, how to get legal advice, what to do if stopped by police, why they need to learn English, how to get a driver's license, and how to avoid deportation.
76) Clemente
Publisher
Laguna Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Un hombre cruza el Rio Grande con la esperanza de empezar una nueva vida en Ame?rica. Cuando una inesperada redada lo separa de su familia, Clemente es forzado a abrirse camino de regreso. Su trauma?tico viaje ilustra les motivaciones y peligros de muchas personas que enfrentan valerosamente esta desafiante odisea.
A man crosses the Rio Grande in hopes of starting a new life in America. When an unexpected raid separates him from his family, Clemente...
77) The last life
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
78) Green card
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience. She gets the apartment of her dreams and he gets a green card to live in the U.S. The two encounter difficulties, and even worse, they just might be falling in love.
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Publisher
National Geographic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
An award-winning author examines the history of American immigration--a critical topic in 21st century America--particularly those lesser-known stories of immigrants who were denied entrance into the States or detained for security reasons.
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