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81) Katie's wish
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Soon after Katie wishes for her potatoes to disappear during dinner, a potato famine ravages her native Ireland, forcing her to leave for America.
Author
Series
Journey to America volume 3
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fleeing their home in Cambodia, thirteen-year-old Chantrea Conway and her grandparents experience loss, starvation, and deceit in their search for safety and news of Chantrea's missing American father.
85) Refugiado
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Josef es un chico judío que vive en la Alemania nazi, Isabel es una chica cubana que se ve obligada a huir de su país después de las revueltas en contra del gobierno de Castro, en 1994, y Mahmoud es un muchacho que padece la guerra de Siria en 2015. Tres jóvenes distintos y una misión en común: huir de su país."--Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
87) Silver days
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In this sequel to Journey to America, the reunited Platt family works hard at settling in to America, but the spectre of the war in Europe continues to affect their lives.
90) Why am I here?
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"A young girl wonders what life would be like if she lived somewhere else. What if she lived in a city with millions of people? What would it be like to be a refugee from a war-torn country? Is she meant to be in a different place? Or is she right where she's supposed to be? "--
91) Like a dandelion
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Like feathery seeds, a young girl and her mother take flight, putting down roots in an adopted country. Soon they blossom in their new home, strong and beautiful among hundreds of others just like them. . . A poetic tribute to the bravery of immigrants and refugees, inspired by the author's childhood experience of moving to the United States from Cambodia"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Jenny Lombard draws on her background as a public school teacher to fashion an urban multiethnic/racial story that presents in alternating first-person chapters the evolution of an unlikely and difficult friendship--that of an African-American girl from the neighborhood and the unwelcome new kid in class: a girl from Kosovo who speaks no English.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.
Author
Series
Journey to America volume 2
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
They left their homelands during the worst moments in history - and arrived in America ready to reach for their dreams.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Ella's best friend, Monkey, doesn't like good-bye hugs. He doesn't want to say goodbye to Oma. And he doesn't want to move away forever. Neither does Ella. But papa is waiting for them in New York. So Ella and Monkey must board the ship with Mama and leave their home in Holland for their new home in America. Along the way, there is fish for dinner (Monkey hates fish), a playroom full of new kids (Monkey doesn't like strangers), and stormy seas that...
96) No Somos de Aqui
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But, none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala...
97) Naming Liberty
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In parallel stories, a Ukrainian Jewish family prepares to emigrate to the United States in the late 1800s, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designs, raises funds for, and builds the Statue of Liberty in honor of the United States' centennial.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - 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
Series
Instant volume club
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
100) Islandborn
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
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 herown heritage.
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