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Publisher
Salem Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This book "places special emphasis on the many ethnic communities that have provided American immigrants. For example, readers will find 17 articles treating African Americans; 56 articles about Asian immigrants, including articles specifically on Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Pacific Islander, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and Vietnamese immigrants; 25 articles on Latino and West Indian immigrants, including articles specifically...
5) Little Bee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
Author
Publisher
Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This book explores the complicated topic of immigration by first presenting a historical overview of immigration as well as various points-of-view and key players in the public discourse on immigration. It discusses immigration laws and border security, economic impacts of immigrants, and immigration reform from a wide variety of perspectives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the history of Ellis Island, a gateway for many immigrants coming to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and details the restoration of the landmark and its reopening as a museum.
Author
Language
English
Description
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children—5-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and 7-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she’s separated from her mother.
10) Heads you win
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Alexander Karpenko and his mother must flee Russia, they flip a coin to see if they will emigrate to London or New York and in a single moment, a double twist decides Alexander's future in a story spanning two continents and thirty years.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship.
13) My America
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Children from around the world tell their stories, sharing their love of where they're from and where they live now--homes old and new. They describe the foods they eat, the languages they've learned, the sports they play, and more, revealing the differences and similarities that link us all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Help readers to understand the journeys that Indian-Americans took to the United States. This title also introduces readers to their country of origin, reasons for leaving their former home, the steps and challenges to becoming a U.S. citizen, and the ways in which they assimilate to life in America while bringing their cultures and traditions.
17) Anna & Solomon
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on the story of the author's grandparents' migration to the United States from late-nineteenth-century Russia, shares how Solomon moved to the U.S. first, where he worked to save money for Anna to join him.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Looking at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child, this dramatic story follows Vänna who comes to the rescue of a 9-year-old Syrian boy who has washed up on the shores of her small island and is determined to do whatever it takes to save him.
19) The refugees
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.
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