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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Before she was a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Yousafzai was displaced. When she was just 11-years-old, the Taliban forced Yousafzai and her family to leave their idyllic home in the Swat Valley and join the ranks of Pakistan's internally displaced persons. Yousafzai recounts the agony of leaving behind her books, friends, and pet chickens and the disappointment of interrupted schooling. She also vividly describes the horror of seeing schools reduced...
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Aref, a third-grader who lives in Muscat, Oman, refuses to pack his suitcase and prepare to move to Michigan, his mother asks for help from his grandfather, his Siddi, who takes Aref around the country, storing up memories he can carry with him to a new home.
8) Refugee
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Language
English
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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
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Language
English
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In this novel in verse, when she is sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life full of surprises.
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Aref is excited to reunite with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he will start a new school, and while Aref misses his grandfather, his Sidi, he knows that his home in Oman will always be waiting for him.
11) Immigration
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles mass immigration to the United States from the time of the early colonies to today.
12) Maggie's door
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.
14) Immigrant kids
Author
Language
English
Description
Text and contemporary photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at home, school, work, and play during the late 1800's and early 1900's.
15) Immigrants
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
92 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
17) Angel Island
Author
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The West Coast welcomed thousands of immigrants from Asia who carried with them hopes and dreams of a bright future. Many stayed on the island for weeks or months before moving into California. Why did they have to stay so long? What made them want to come to the United States."--Back cover.
18) West of the moon
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Language
English
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Description
In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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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
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Since opening in 1892, Ellis Island has come to symbolize the waves of immigrants from a list of countries that seems endless. In this work, Bial tells the story of Ellis Island itself.
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