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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
A novel in verse inspired by the author's experience follows Hà and her family, refugees from the Vietnam War, as they move to Texas for a new job, and despite not wanting to start over again, Hà discovers unwanted change can bring a good opportunity.
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...
23) Molly's pilgrim
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.
26) The only road
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Jaime is sitting on his bed drawing when he hears a scream. Instantly, he knows: Miguel, his cousin and best friend, is dead. Everyone in Jaime s small town in Guatemala knows someone who has been killed by the Alphas, a powerful gang that s known for violence and drug trafficking. Anyone who refuses to work for them is hurt or killed like Miguel. With Miguel gone, Jaime fears that he is next. There s only one choice: accompanied by his cousin ngela,...
27) 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
28) No safe place
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fifteen-year-old Abdul, having lost everyone he loves, journeys from Baghdad to a migrant community in Calais where he sneaks aboard a boat bound for England, not knowing it carries a cargo of heroin, and when the vessel is involved in a skirmish and the pilot killed, it is up to Abdul and three other young stowaways to complete the journey.
29) The water year
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Sophie lives on the border between the United States and Mexico. She spends most of her time taking care of her little sister and working at the family restaurant, hoping to catch the eye the Mexican boy who delivers baked goods. Her father and uncle spend their free time scouring the desert as part of a civilian militia, trying to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the United States. When Sophie becomes involved with an immigrant-aid organization...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.--
"Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is 15 when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her younger sister, Naomi, to Shanghai, one of the few places that will accept Jews without visas. There they struggle to make a life;...
Author
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 2
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Continues the adventures of fifteen-year-old Maura, her younger brother Patrick, a young stowaway, and some unusual characters as they sail from England to the New World in 1851.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
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
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 1
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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.
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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.
38) I hate English!
Author
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mei Mei, a young immigrant girl from Hong Kong, arrives in New York's Chinatown. With the help of her teacher, Mei Mei learns that she can have the best of two worlds by learning to communicate in two languages.
39) The big umbrella
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A spacious umbrella welcomes anyone and everyone who needs shelter from the rain.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Anita watches the dragons high above her as she hops from one cement roof to another in her village in the Dominican Republic. But being the valiant princesa she is, she never lets them scare her. Then one day, Anita must face her fears to begin a new life in a new country. Will she be brave enough to enter the belly of the beast and take flight to new adventures?
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