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The Rock in My Throat
Kao Kalia Yang - Carolrhoda Books ®
Format: Hardcover
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At first, no one noticed when I stopped talking at school.
In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a young Hmong refugee navigating life at home and at school. Having seen the poor treatment her parents received when making their best efforts at speaking English,... |
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My Two Border Towns
David Bowles - Kokila
Format: Hardcover
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Early one Saturday morning, a boy prepares for a trip to The Other Side/El Otro Lado. It's close--just down the street from his school--and it's a twin of where he lives. To get there, his father drives their truck along the Rio Grande and over a bridge, where they're greeted... |
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Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees
Mary Beth Leatherdale - Annick Press
Format: Paperback
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The phenomenon of desperate refugees risking their lives to reach safety is not new. For hundreds of years, people have left behind family, friends, and all they know in hope of a better life. This book presents five true stories about young people who lived through the harrowing experience... |
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Like a Dandelion
Huy Voun Lee
Format: Hardcover
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Like a Dandelion is 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. Like feathery seeds, a young girl and her mother take flight, putting down roots in an adopted country. Soon they... |
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Facing Fear
Karen Lynn Williams - Eerdmans Books for Young Readers; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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Enrique can't believe his father won't let him travel to his team's big soccer tournament. Papi says going across the checkpoint is too risky. Even though Enrique is a U.S. citizen, the rest of the family isn't - and if the border police stop them, the family might be split... |
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Anita and the Dragons
Hannah Carmona - Lantana Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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. Will she be brave enough to enter the belly of the beast and take flight to new adventures? |
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The Journey
Francesca Sanna - Flying Eye Books
Format: Print book
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With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.From... |
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We Came to America
Faith Ringgold - Dragonfly Books
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed artist and Caldecott-winning picture book creator Faith Ringgold shares an inspiring look at Americas lineage in this stunning ode to our country--past, present, and future. . America is a land of diversity. Whether driven by dreams and hope, or escaping poverty or persecution,... |
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Lost and Found Cat: The True Story of Kunkush's Incredible Journey
Doug Kuntz - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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The true story about one cat's journey to be reunited with his war-torn family has been seen by millions of people and is now a heartwarming picture book. When an Iraqi family is forced to flee their home, they can't bear to leave their beloved cat, Kunkush, behind. So they carry... |
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My Diary from Here to There: Mi diario de aqui hasta alla
Amada Irma Perez - Childrens Book Press
Format: Paperback
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One night, young Amada overhears her parents whisper of moving from Mexico to the other side of the border to Los Angeles, where greater opportunity awaits. As she and her family make their journey north, Amada records her fears, hopes, and dreams for their lives in the United States in her diary.... |
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The Treasure Box
Margaret Wild - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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A moving and ultimately hopeful look at what we hold most dear - and carry with us - when we are forced to flee our homes because of war.When the enemy bombs the library, everything burns, and only one book survives. As war rages around them, Peter and his father, alongside so many... |
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We Are a Garden: A Story of How Diversity Took Root in America
Lisa Westberg Peters - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover
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Long ago a strong wind blew. It blew people, like seeds, to a new land.The wind blew in a girl and her clan, where herds of mammoths still wandered the frozen tundra. It later blew a boy and his family across frigid waters, and they spread across the new land. Over time, the wind continued... |
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I Dream of Popo
Livia Blackburne - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Livia Blackburne and illustrator Julia Kuo, here is I Dream of Popo. This delicate, emotionally rich picture book celebrates a special connection that crosses time zones and oceans as Popo and her granddaughter hold each other in their hearts forever.
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Wishes
Muon Thi Van - Orchard Books; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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Wishes tells the powerful, honest story about one Vietnamese family's search for a new home on the other side of the world, and the long-lasting and powerful impact that makes on the littlest member of the family. Inspired by actual events in the author's life, this is a narrative... |
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Islandborn
Junot Díaz - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Daz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when... |
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The Keeping Quilt: The Original Classic Edition (Aladdin Picture Books)
Patricia Polacco - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover
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American Booksellers Association Pick of the Lists Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Book Award Carnegie Medal Honor Book Now available again in its original classic edition in hardcover, this beloved and bestselling picture book tells the story of one familys history through... |
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The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border
Stephen Briseño - Random House Studio
Format: Library Binding
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Based on true events, this inspiring story follows a mama and her daughter who are denied entry at the U.S. border, and must find the refugee in charge of "the notebook," an unofficial ledger of those waiting to cross into the U.S.Before, the sun drenched the yard. Our neighbor's... |
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Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home
Zahra Marwan - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover
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An evocative picture book debut that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States.Zahra lives in a beautiful place where the desert reaches all the way to the sea and one hundred butterflies always fill the sky. When Baba and Mama tell her that their... |
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Watch Me: A Story of Immigration and Inspiration
Doyin Richards
Format: Hardcover
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Joe came to America from Africa when he was young. He worked hard in school, made friends, and embraced his new home. Like so many immigrants before and after him, Joe succeeded when many thought he would fail.In telling the story of how his father came to America, Doyin Richards tells... |
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Windrush Child: The Tale of a Caribbean Child Who Faced a New Horizon
John Agard - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover
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Internationally acclaimed poet John Agard recalls the journey made by the thousands of Caribbean children and their families who traveled to Britain between 1948 and 1971 as part of the Windrush generation.. With one last hug, Windrush child says goodbye to his grandmother and the shores... |
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Finding Papa
Angela Pham Krans - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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This poignant and lyrical debut picture book based on the author's own experience and illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Thi Bui follows young Mai and her mother's perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa - who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family.... |
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Vanishing Colors
Constance Ørbeck-Nilssen - Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting, poignant story about refugeesAs a young girl and her mother take shelter for the night in their war-torn city, the whole world appears muted and dark. When the girl wakes in the middle of the night to find a bird watching her, she knows it's the one from her mother's... |
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Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush
Patrice Lawrence - Nosy Crow
Format: Hardcover
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This heart-warming and heartfelt debut picture book from multi-award-winning author Patrice Lawrence introduces the struggles and achievements of a generation of African Caribbeans who traveled across the Atlantic to call a new country home. Ava is asked to dress up as an inspirational... |
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The Most Beautiful Thing
Kao Kalia Yang - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Hardcover
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A warmhearted and tender true story about a young girl finding beauty where she never thought to look. Drawn from author Kao Kalia Yang's childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee, this moving picture book portrays a family with a great deal of love and little money. Weaving together... |
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Dreamers
Yuyi Morales - Neal Porter Books; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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Dreamers is a celebration of making your home with the things you always carry: your resilience, your dreams, your hopes and history. It's the story of finding your way in a new place, of navigating an unfamiliar world and finding the best parts of it. In dark times, it's a promise... |
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The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's LiteratureNational Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpr Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lpez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even... |
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A Different Pond
Bao Phi - Picture Window Books
Format: Library Binding
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Acclaimed poet Bao Phi delivers a powerful, honest glimpse into a relationship between father and son -- and between cultures, old and new. A Different Pond is an unforgettable story about a simple event -- a long-ago fishing trip. As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's... |
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I Am Golden
Eva Chen
Format: Hardcover
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What do you see when you look in the mirror, Mei? Do you see beauty?We see eyes that point toward the sun, that give us the warmth and joy of a thousand rays when you smile. We see hair as inky black and smooth as a peaceful night sky. We see skin brushed with gold. |
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Amy Wu and the Warm Welcome
Kat Zhang - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Amy Wu does her best to make her new classmate feel welcome in this warmhearted and playfully illustrated follow-up picture book to Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao and Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon.Amy's class has a new student from China! Amy tries hard to make Lin feel included, but she can't... |
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Home Is in Between
Mitali Perkins
Format: Hardcover
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Shanti misses the warm monsoon rains in India. Now in America, she watches fall leaves fly past her feet. Still, her family's apartment feels like a village: Mama cooking luchi, funny stories in Bangla, and Baba's big laugh. But outside, everything is different - trick-or-treating,... |
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I Is for Immigrants
Selina Alko
Format: Hardcover
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What do African dance, samosas, and Japanese gardens have in common? They are all gifts the United States received from immigrants: the vibrant, multifaceted people who share their heritage and traditions to enrich the fabric of our daily lives. From Jewish delis to bagpipes, bodegas and Zen Buddhism,... |
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Where Are You From?
Yamile Saied Méndez - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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This resonant picture book tells the story of one girl who constantly gets asked a simple question that doesn't have a simple answer. A great conversation starter in the home or classroom - a book to share, in the spirit of I Am Enough by Grace Byers and Keturah A. Bobo.When a girl is asked... |
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Tomatoes in My Lunchbox
Costantia Manoli - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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A moving picture book from a debut author about the first day of school, layered with themes about the immigrant experience and the universal experience of feeling out of place.A child, newly arrived in another country, feels displaced, lonely, and a little scared on her first day of school.... |
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Lolo's Sari-sari Store
Sophia N. Lee - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A little girl holds lessons learned in her grandfather's sari-sari store close while adjusting to a new home in this sweet picture book about the joy of community, connection, and Filipino culture.. For one girl, summers used to mean helping Lolo run his sari-sari store, which was always... |
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My Two Blankets
Irena Kobald - Harcourt Brace and Company
Format: Print book
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Cartwheel moves to a new country with her auntie, and everything is strange: the animals, the plants - even the wind. An old blanket gives Cartwheel comfort when she's sad - and a new blanket just might change her world. This multicultural story of friendship is about leaving home,... |
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Fatima's Great Outdoors
Ambreen Tariq
Format: Hardcover
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Fatima Khazi is excited for the weekend. Her family is headed to a local state park for their first camping trip! The school week might not have gone as planned, but outdoors, Fatima can achieve anything. She sets up a tent with her father, builds a fire with her mother, and survives an eight-legged... |
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I'm an Immigrant Too!
MEM FOX - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover
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From beloved Australian author Mem Fox comes a timely picture book about how all of our lives are enriched by the vibrant cultural diversity immigrants bring to their new communities. What journeys we have travelled, from countries near and far! Together now, we live in peace, beneath the Southern... |
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Maribel's Year
Michelle Sterling - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate the special connection between father and daughter in this gorgeously evocative picture book, recounting the year a little girl and her mother spend in America while waiting for her father to join them from the Philippines. From acclaimed author Michelle Sterling and illustrator... |
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Rosa's Song
Helena Ku Rhee - Random House Studio
Format: Library Binding
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In this diverse picture book, a young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment house filled with other newly arrived kids.When Jae looks out the window of his new home, he wishes he could still see his old village, his old house, and his old friends. But his new apartment... |
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My Tree
Hope Lim - Neal Porter Books; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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A young boy, recently arrived from Korea, finds a glorious plum tree in his new backyard. It reminds him of a tree his family had back home, and he names it "Plumee" for the deep purple plums on its branches. Whenever the boy is homesick, he knows he can take shelter in Plumee's... |
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Mustafa
MARIE-LOUISE GAY - Groundwood Books
Format: Hardcover
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Mustafa and his family traveled a long way to reach their new home. Some nights Mustafa dreams about the country he used to live in, and he wakes up not knowing where he is. Then his mother takes him out to the balcony to see the moon -- the same moon as in their old country. In the park,... |
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Saffron Ice Cream
Rashin Kheiriyeh - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Rashin is excited about her first visit to the beach in her family's new home. On the way there, she remembers what beach trips were like in Iran, the beautiful Caspian Sea, the Persian music, and most of all the saffron ice cream she shared with her best friend, Azadeh. But there are wonderful... |
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My Words Flew Away Like Birds
Debora Pearson - Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover
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A poetically told immigration story that fosters understanding and beautifully articulates how the desire to belong and the need for human connection are universal.A little girl learns some words in a new language to prepare for her move to a new country. But when she, her mother and her father... |
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I Wish You Knew
Jackie Azua Kramer - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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When Estrella's father has to leave because he wasn't born here, like her,She misses him.And she wishes people knew the way it affects her.At home. At school.Always.But a school wrapped around a hundred-year-old oak tree is the perfect place to share and listen.Some kids miss family,Some... |
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A Thousand White Butterflies
Jessica Betancourt-Perez - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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Isabella has recently arrived from Colombia with her mother and abuela. She misses Papa, who is still in South America. It's her first day of school, her make-new-friends day, but when classes are canceled because of too much snow, Isabella misses warm, green, Colombia more than ever.... |
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Sugar in Milk
Thrity Umrigar - Running Press Kids
Format: Hardcover
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A timely and timeless picture book about immigration, refugees, acceptance, and tolerance from a New York Times bestselling author.A young Parsi girl in modern times comes from India to live in America with her extended family. She feels so alone-like she's not wanted-but then is told... |
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Lubna and Pebble
Wendy Meddour - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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In an unforgettable story that subtly addresses the refugee crisis, a young girl must decide if friendship means giving up the one item that gives her comfort during a time of utter uncertainty.Lubna's best friend is a pebble. Pebble always listens to her stories. Pebble always smiles when... |
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Gibberish
Young Vo - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover
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From Far Away
Robert Munsch - Annick Press
Format: Paperback
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When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom,... |
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Mina Belongs Here
Sandra Niebuhr-Siebert - Floris Books
Format: Hardcover
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Mina is worried about starting a kindergarten in her new country where the only word she can understand is her name. A warm and emotive story that explores how sharing a language can encourage a sense of belonging through a gentle story and lively illustrations.At Mina's kindergarten... |
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Danbi Leads the School Parade
Anna Kim
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Danbi is thrilled to start her new school in America. But a bit nervous too, for when she walks into the classroom, everything goes quiet. Everyone stares. Danbi wants to join in the dances and the games, but she doesn't know the rules and just can't get anything right. Luckily, s |
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The Suitcase
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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When a weary stranger arrives one day, with only a suitcase, everyone is full of questions: To learn the answers, they can either trust the newcomer or discover what they risk by not believing him. A story about hope and kindness, truth and perception - and most importantly, about... |
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These Olive Trees
Aya Ghanameh - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a Palestinian family's ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye.. It's 1967 in Nablus, Palestine.. Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp where she lives. Each harvest, she and her mama... |
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To the Other Side
Erika Meza - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Author-illustrator Erika Meza delivers a stunning and emotionally rich book from the viewpoint of those most impacted by border walls: young refugee children. This powerfully told tale highlights the spirit and strength of those embarking on a dangerous trek, and what awaits them on the other... |
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Friends Are Friends, Forever
Dane Liu
Format: Hardcover
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On a snowy Lunar New Year's Eve in Northeastern China, it's Dandan's last night with Yueyue. Tomorrow, she moves to America. The two best friends have a favorite wintertime tradition: crafting paper-cut snowflakes, freezing them outside, and hanging them as ornaments.As they... |
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The Day War Came
NICOLA DAVIES - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to become a refugee.The day war came there were flowers on the windowsill and my father sang my baby brother back to sleep.Imagine if, on an ordinary... |
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My Name Is Bana
Bana Alabed - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"I just want to live without fear." - Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 12, 2016 When seven-year-old Bana Alabed took to Twitter to describe the horrors she and her family were experiencing in war-torn Syria, her heartrending messages touched the world and gave a voice to millions... |
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