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241) Fields of grace
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2009
Description
With their eldest son about to be drafted into military service, Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt decide to immigrate to America with their three sons and Reinhardt's adopted brother. After tragedy strikes during the voyage, their hopeful dreams turn to dust. Can they maintain the faith of their fathers in a new land?
242) Tiger daughter
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the smartest boy at school despite struggling with his English...
243) Cuban Americans
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Provides information on the history of Cuba and on the customs, language, religion, and experiences of Cuban Americans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"This book for elementary readers highlights the sequence of events from idea to implementation. Full-color photographs and a timeline support each step in the process, from first arrival in the U.S. through the application, testing and the final oath. A glossary, further resources, and an index are included"--
245) The symmetry of fish
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family's lexicon. Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving debut about coming-of-age in the middle of nowhere. With striking and tender insight, it seeks to give voice to those who have been denied their stories, and examines the way phrases and narratives are passed down through immigrant families-not...
Author
Series
Good night stories for rebel girls volume Book 3
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Contains one hundred biographies of immigrant women who left their birth countries for a multitude of reasons: some for new opportunities, some out of neccessity. Readers will learn about Madeleine Albright, Asma Khan, Carmen Miranda, Rihanna, and many more. From chefs and surgeons, to musicians and politicians, to champions of judo and chess, these extraordinary figures will inspired girls everywhere to follow their dreams, no matter where they...
247) The other Americans
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a...
250) The quiet place
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran's return to earth. Keith comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and a house completely empty of furniture, as if Odysseus had returned to Ithaca to find that everyone he knew had forgotten...
255) Nora's chicks
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Arriving on the American prairie in the hope of making a new home, Nora, a little girl from Russia, struggles with loneliness until Papa brings her a dozen chicks and two geese who follow Nora everywhere she goes.
256) My name is Sangoel
Author
Series
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Description
As a refugee from Sudan to the United States, Sangoel is frustrated that no one can pronounce his name correctly until he finds a clever way to solve the problem.
258) Silent movie
Author
Publisher
An Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
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.
259) The namesake
Publisher
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, �2007
Description
The American-born son of Indian immigrants feels pulled between his ethnic heritage and his desire to assimilate, especially after becoming involved with two very different women.
260) Uprising
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.
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