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41) Dawn raid
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Sophia is like most girls in 1976 New Zealand. How is she going to earn enough money for those boots? Why does she have to give that speech at school? Who is she going to be friends with this year? It comes as a surprise to Sofia and her family when her big brother, Lenny, starst talking about protests, "overstayers," and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government. Inspired by the Black Panthers in America, a group has formed called the...
42) The blessing cup
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A single china cup from a tea set left behind when Jews were forced to leave Russia helps hold a family together through generations of living in America, reminding them of the most important things in life.
44) Benny and Omar
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Benny hates his new life in Tunisia; none of the kids play his favorite sport, and he feels like he just doesn't fit in, until he is befriended by Omar, a wild boy living on his talent for buying, selling, and fixing things.
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?
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, teenager Lee Chin and his father leave China for California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where Lee defies his father's wishes and saves money to free his younger sister from slavery in China, then brings her to join him in beginning a new life in America. Includes historical note about the Chinese who helped build the transcontinental railroad.
47) Islandborn
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"--
48) The braid
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.
52) Land of promise
Author
Series
Ellis Island trilogy volume 2
Description
In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.
53) Silent movie
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Formats
Description
In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie, in a picture book that evokes an actual silent movie.
54) Teacup
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"A boy travels across the sea in a rowboat in search of a new home, making a journey that is long and difficult--but also filled with beauty and hope"--
55) Fiona's lace
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Fiona and her family moved from Ireland to Chicago to begin a new life. Yet, when the family is struck with misfortune, will Fiona's lace help save them?"--
56) Quedando bien
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A collection of stories about young girls who as Cuban immigrants to the United States grow in confidence and spirit as they confront painful challenges, meeting them head-on.
58) A place to grow
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
As a father tells his daughter what a seed needs to flourish, he also explains the reasons he emigrated to a new homeland.
Author
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 1
Pub. Date
[1996]
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.