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61) Lights for Gita
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
23 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Recently immigrated from India, Gita is looking forward to celebrating her favorite holiday, Divali, a festival of lights, but things are so different in her new home that she wonders if she will ever adjust.
62) Finding Papa
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Follows young Mai and her mother's perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa--who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family"--
63) The great wheel
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
64) Shooting Kabul
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
262 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mateo's big brother Julian works in the United States. When the family doesn't hear from Julian for a few weeks, Mateo sneaks out and journeys north to find him, crossing the border with the help of a new friend, Angel"--
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
viii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1902, ten-year-old Johann and his family, Germans who had been living in Austria-Hungary, board a ship to immigrate to Youngstown, Ohio, where they make a new life as Americans.
68) Wishes
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this spare, poetic picture book based on author Muon Van's family history and told through a series of wishes, a family packs up everything they own and embarks on a perilous oceanic voyage toward a better life"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sofía Acosta, a fifth grader trying to fit into her ballet-obsessed Cuban American family and her affluent suburban New York community, learns to speak up for herself and others when she mistakenly reveals a visiting dancer's plan to defect to the United States.
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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.
71) Hope in my heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Whistle/Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
50 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday, and in it she records the dramatic story of her journey to America.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lee, an orphan, reluctantly leaves his grandparents in China for the long sea voyage to San Francisco, where he and other immigrants undergo examinations at Angel Island Immigration Station.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1945, when young Thomas, his mother, and his new baby brother leave war-torn England to join his stepfather, an American soldier named Jack, in Chicago, Thomas finds a way to give courage to a fellow traveler on the Queen Mary. Includes historical note about war brides.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Enrique is a U.S. citizen-but the rest of his family isn't. When he hears a rumor of a police raid, Enrique must face the possibility of being separated from his parents and sister"--
Author
Series
Girlhood journeys. Shannon volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
71 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A recent immigrant from Ireland to San Francisco in 1880, Shannon is ready to start school, but is dismayed that her Chinese friend is forbidden by law to attend and that many of her classmates are prejudiced against the Irish as well.
80) Sugar in milk
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins.
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