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Flowers in the Sky
Lynn Joseph - HarperTeen
Format: Book
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Nina immigrates from the Dominican Republic to New York to live with her older brother and must reconcile the realities of Washington Heights with the dreams of the U.S. her mami envisioned for her.
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The Tyrant's Daughter
J.C. Carleson - Random House Childrens Books
Format: Book
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Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.
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Threads and Flames
Esther Friesner - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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After recovering from typhus, thirteen-year-old Raisa leaves her Polish shtetl for America to join her older sister, and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.
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Audacity
Melanie Crowder - Philomel
Format: Book
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A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York.
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The Fire Horse Girl
Kay Honeyman - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Book
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When Jade Moon, born in the unlucky year of the Fire Horse, and her father immigrate to America in 1923 and are detained at Angel Island Immigration Station, Jade Moon is determined to find a way through and prove that she is not cursed.
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Shooting Kabul
N. H. Senzai - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fadi never imagined he'd start middle school in Fremont, California, thousands of miles away from home in Kabul. But, here he was, half a world apart from his missing six year old sister who'd been lost because of him, as they'd fled Afghanistan. Adjusting to life in the United States... |
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Game Seven
Paul Volponi - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba who dreams of playing with the pros must choose between his country and his father who defected to the U.S.
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Tell Us We're Home
Marina Budhos - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
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Out of the Dragon's Mouth
Joyce Burns Zeiss - Flux
Format: Book
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After the fall of South Vietnam, 14-year-old Mai is forced to flee to a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where she must navigate numerous hardships while waiting to be sponsored for entry into America.
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The Good Braider
Terry Farish - Amazon Children's Publishing
Format: Book
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Viola survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom is hampered by memories of her past.
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Someone Like Summer
M. E. Kerr - HarperTeen
Format: Book
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An upper-middle-class white girl from Long Island and an immigrant worker from Colombia fall in love despite objections from both their families and their community.
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Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel; 1 edition
Format: Book
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In 1941, Lina and her family are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she and her family fight for their lives.
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Lost
Jacqueline Davies - Skyscape
Format: Book
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In 1911, Essie must stop taking care of her younger sister and goes to work at the Triangle Waist Company, where she befriends a missing heiress who is in hiding from her family and who seems to understand the feelings of heartache and grief that Essie is trying desperately to escape.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Karen Hesse - Feiwel & Friends; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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In 1903 Brooklyn, 14-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Red Midnight
Ben Mikaelsen - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Book
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After soldiers kill his family, 12-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.
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Ashes of Roses
MJ Auch - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
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When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago - Vintage Books
Format: Book
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Santiago writes of her childhood on her native island and of her bewildering years of transition in New York City.
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Angel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery
M. Evelina Galang - Coffee House Press
Format: Book
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As a baby in her mother's womb, as a schoolgirl in Manilla, and as a reluctant immigrant to Chicago at age sixteen, Angel burns with a desire to be an activist, but learning truths about her mother and grandmother help her find peace.
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Snow in August
Pete Hamill - Thorndike Press
Format: Book
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An unlikely friendship between an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and a lonely rabbi from Prague in 1947 Brooklyn has the two opening new windows of understanding with each other but still fighting the prejudices of the day.
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Letters from Rifka
Karen Hesse - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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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.
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The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition
Reyna Grande - Aladdin
Format: Print book
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Award-winning author Reyna Grande shares her compelling experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her "compelling ... unvarnished, resonant" (BookPage) memoir, The Distance Between Us.When her parents make the dangerous and illegal... |
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Flowers in the Sky
Lynn Joseph - HarperTeen
Format: Book
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Fifteen-year-old Nina Perez is faced with a future she never expected. She must leave her Garden of Eden, her lush island home in Samana, Dominican Republic, when she's sent by her mother to live with her brother, Darrio, in New York, to seek out a better life.
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Lost in America
Marilyn Sachs
Format: Book
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Seventeen-year-old Nicole wants nothing more than to be a "real American girl," but the memories of her family, taken by the Nazis and killed at Auschwitz, continue to haunt her as she struggles to make a new life for herself in a strange land.
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Lucy and Linh
Alice Pung - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book
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A smart but insecure Lucy, leaps at the chance to escape her broken-down suburban life when she is given a scholarship to a prestigious school, where she unexpectedly gains entry into an influential clique alongside a girl who is tired of being eclipsed by her own false popularity.Linh... |
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The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan
Jennifer Armstrong
Format: Book
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This haunting novel portrays a family of Irish immigrants fighting to find its identity in the New World while a nation struggles to be born anew out of the carnage of war.
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A Step from Heaven
Na An
Format: Book
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Young Ju Park is unhappy with her journey to America as her family suffers hard times upon their arrival, yet when her father suddenly becomes violent, Young Ju is thankful when he leaves so that her family can start over.
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