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Puzzle of the Paper Daughter: A Julie Mystery
Kathryn Reiss - American Girl
Format: Hardcover
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Julie discovers a mysterious note written in Chinese. She brings it to her friend Ivy to translate, and learns that the note once belonged to Ivy's grandmother, from long ago when she was a girl immigrating from China to San Francisco. The note promises great treasure, but it doesn't... |
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German Immigrants in America
Elizabeth Raum - Capstone Press
Format: Library Binding
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Describes the experiences of German immigrants upon arriving in America. The readers choices reveal historical details from the perspective of Germans who came to Texas in the 1840s, the Dakota Territory in the 1880s, and Wisconsin before the start of World War I. |
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At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices
Louise Peacock - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Ellis Island was the gateway to America and the promise of freedom for thousands. Its walls are rich with stories. Its walls are rich with stories. In this book we hear myriad of those voices. First we follow a young person today. Her great-great-grandmother entered America through Ellis... |
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The Arrival
Shaun Tan - Arthur A. Levine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A truly remarkable work of art that is already one of the most talked-about book of the season.A shockingly imaginative graphic novel that captures the sense of adventure and wonder that surrounds a new arrival on the shores of a shining new city. Wordless, but with perfect narrative flow,... |
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Drita, My Homegirl
Jenny Lombard - Putnam Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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Drita and her family come to New York as refugees from war-torn Kosovo. Even though she barely speaks English, Drita can’t wait to start school and make a new best friend. But her new classmates don’t make it easy, teasing her about virtually everything.The worst is Maxie, a tough... |
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Bridge to America: Based on a True Story
Linda Glaser - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The year is 1920 and the setting is a shtetl, a small village in northern Poland, where Fivel and his family live in fear of the ruthless Cossacks and unpredictable pogroms. As he and his mother, brother, and sisters struggle to stay alive, nine-year-old Fivel is hungry, is cold, is a rascal,... |
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My America: Hope In My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary, Book One
Kathryn Lasky - Scholastic
Format: Paperback
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In Book One of Sofia's Ellis Island Diary, renowned author Kathryn Lasky tells the story of Sofia Monari's arrival in America from Italy.When Sofia and her family arrive in Ellis Island after a long and difficult journey from Italy, a cruel twist of fate separates Sofia from her parents... |
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Ashes of Roses
MJ Auch - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book
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The honest and compelling story of a young girl's newfound independence, from her entrance into a new country to her frightening involvement in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911.My heart filled with fear and hope at the same time. I had the feeling that I was brought to America... |
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My Name Is America: The Journal Of Otto Peltonen, A Finnish Immigrant
William Durbin - Scholastic
Format: Print book
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In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions. |
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How I Became an American
Karin Gundisch - Cricket Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1902 in a small German town a traveler turns up spouting catchy songs about adventures in America. To the townspeople, the land sounds like paradise, and ten-year-old Johann Bonfert is excited when his own family begins planning a life overseas. His father and brother leave early to find... |
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Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai - HarperCollins
Format: Audio CD
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Inside Out and Back Again is a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience of fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama, this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse... |
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The Unforgotten Coat
Frank Cottrell Boyce - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Cosmic and Millions comes an evocative immigration tale about two brothers trying to survive- a daring story that miraculously defies belief. When two Mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in Julie's sixth grade class, no one, least of all Julie,... |
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Escaping the Tiger
Laura Manivong - HarperCollins; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When youre so skinny people call you Skeleton Boy, how do you find strength for the fight of your lifeVonlai knows that soldiers who guard the Mekong River shoot at anything that moves, but in oppressive Communist Laos, theres nothing left for him, his spirited sister, Dalah, and his desperate... |
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The King of Mulberry Street
Donna Jo Napoli - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1892, nine-year-old Dom’s mother puts him on a ship leaving Italy, bound for America. He is a stowaway, traveling alone and with nothing of value except for a new pair of shoes from his mother. In the turbulent world of homeless children in Manhattan’s Five Points, Dom learns... |
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The Trouble Begins
Linda Himelblau - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Du Nguyen is finally home. Except he’s never even met his family. And home is an ocean away from everything he’s ever known. Du’s mother, father, brother, and two sisters immigrated to California when he was just a baby. Du and his grandmother had to stay behind in the Philippines.... |
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A House of Tailors
Patricia Reilly Giff - Wendy Lamb Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk. Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family.When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany... |
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Maggie's Door
Patricia Reilly Giff - Wendy Lamb Books; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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We will dance on the cliffs of Brooklyn.Maggie's Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination - the home of Nory's sister Maggie, at 416 Smith Street, Brooklyn,... |
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Flight to Freedom
Ana Veciana-Suarez - Scholastic Paperbacks; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. "Flight to Freedom" is closely based on Suarez's own story of leaving Cuba during the Freedom Flights of the 1960s.Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967,... |
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First Person Fiction
Edwidge Danticat - Scholastic; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. In "Behind the Mountains" Edwidge Danticat tells the story of Celiane and her family's struggles in Haiti and New York.It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital city... |
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A Place for Joey
Carol Flynn Harris - Boyds Mills Press
Format: Print book
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From the moment they arrived in America, Joey Calabro's parents have dreamed of moving to the country and buying a farm. But Joey has a different dream. He can't imagine living anywhere but Boston's North End. He loves the sights and sounds and smells of the neighborhood, from... |
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