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1) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
You're one of millions of immigrants leaving your home in the early 1900s to move to the United States. You're searching for a better life. Ellis Island, near New York City, is your first stop in your search for opportunity and freedom. Officials on the island have been processing immigrants there for decades, but not everyone gets through. If you pass the tests, you're on your way to a new life in the United States. If you don't, you may find
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Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
95 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines factors such as history, culture, and religion that encourage emigration from Mexico and discusses the acceptance of this ethnic group in America.
7) Ellis Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks at the history of Ellis Island and identifies its early roles as a Mohegan island, fisherman rest spot, famous immigration station, and today's museum.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups have evolved throughout U.S. history, from 1800 to today.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
160 pages : map, chart ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a twelve-year-old boy growing up in South Vietnam, Thọ has heard of other boys disappearing from time to time, smuggled out of the country so they wouldn't have to be conscripted into the Communist army. But Thọ is too young to worry about any of that. He spends his afternoons cricket fighting and playing soccer with his friends. Until one day, he finds out that his parents have arranged for him to leave the country -- alone. What follows...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of a dream, many immigrants of color set out across continents, oceans, and borders, travelling to the United States in pursuit of opportunity. Celebratory, triumphant, and inspiring, In the Spirit of a Dream is a tribute to thirteen immigrant stories, from world-famous trailblazers to local heroes. You will read about astronaut Anousheh Ansari; Paralympic athlete Alejandro Albor; surgeon Ayub Khan Ommaya; jazz musician Cándido Camero;...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After traveling to Tijuana, Mexico, Noemi and her mother are denied entry at the border and must find the refugee in charge of the notebook, an unofficial ledger of those waiting to cross into the United States. Includes author's note.
12) The only road
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous journey from his home in Guatemala to his older brother in New Mexico after his cousin is murdered by a drug cartel--
13) West of the moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Alexander Graham Bell to Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden to Alfred Hitchcock, Hannah Arendt to Isaac Asimov and many more, readers will meet artists, activists, scientists, and icons throughout history. Organized chronologically, 100 Immigrants Who Shaped American History offers a look at the prominent role immigrants have always played in America, and how their talents, ideas, and expertise have guided the country from its very beginning...
15) The big umbrella
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A spacious umbrella welcomes anyone and everyone who needs shelter from the rain.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2009, c1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
x, 148 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
Español
Description
Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. Theyll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to safely cross the border ? la frontera ? and to make a home for themselves in a new land.
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
Español
Description
Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. They ll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to safely cross the border - la frontera - and to make a home for themselves in a new land.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[30, 28] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two separate stories in one book, the first telling of Marianthe's starting school in a new land, and the second describing village life in her country before she and her family left in search of a better life.
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