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2) My America
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In this beautiful celebration of immigration, children from around the world tell their stories, sharing their love of where they're from and where they live now--homes old and new. As they describe the foods they eat, the languages they've learned, the sports they play, and more, the differences and similarities that link us all are revealed"--
5) Unsettled
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
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 with unexpected surprises.
10) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Appears on list
Description
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.
11) Islandborn
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland ... and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little girl counts the things she sees as she and her father travel, sometimes on foot, sometimes on top of a train, and sometimes in other ways, stop while her father earns more money for the trip, and avoid soldiers and other dangers.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps during World War II, a Japanese-American family renounces its American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb in this piercing novel by the Newbery Medal-winning author of "Kira-Kira".
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima,...
15) Nory Ryan's song
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Formats
Description
Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin...
16) Wishes
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
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
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
During the coldest season, when the world feels scary -- what do you remember about being warm? Baked potatoes. Trust. A kettle on the stove. Blankets. A smile. And, most of all, the reassurance that you belong. In his powerful and moving poem, featuring illustrations from thirteen extraordinary artists, bestselling author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Neil Gaiman draws together many different memories to answer the question, 'what do you need to...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she'll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape. One day, she meets her neighbor, a boy named Luke, and begins to feel a little more...
19) Maggie's door
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
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.
20) Illegal
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them