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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht-the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
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2020 Youth Media Awards: Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz!
2023-2024 OBOB 6th-8th Grade
Amina's Voice Read-alikes
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Publisher Annotation: Jude never thought she?d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven?t quite prepared her for starting school in the US?and her new label of...
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Video Project
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Migration is frequently a multi-generational experience for families; not an individual choice or the particular economic decision of a single family, but rather a collective practice, repeated again and again by both individuals and communities. The Time of the Fireflies portrays this interconnected history through the narrative of Miguel and his family, questioning long-held misconceptions about immigration.
4) Immigration
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English
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What does it mean to be an immigrant? Why and how do people move to a new home? How does it feel to live in a new country? Includes a timeline of events that have caused large amounts of people to move to a new place, from the Irish Potato Famine to the war in Syria, and a case study of Iraq.
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Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The United States has long been touted as a place where anyone with a little grit and determination could come to pursue the American Dream. But as more walls are erected and borders are closed, is that dream still alive today? A New History of Immigration introduces young readers to alternative histories of immigration beyond Ellis Island and amplifies the voices of marginalized immigrants and their stories of success"--
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"A character-driven look at a pivotal period in American history, 1917-1920: the tumultuous home front during WWI and its aftermath, when violence broke out across the country thanks to the first Red Scare, labor strife, and immigration battles"--Provided by publisher.
The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced -- in one notable case, only in private....
9) The journey
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Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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. Francesca is an Italian illustrator and graphic designer who moved to Switzerland to follow her dream to work as an illustrator. She graduated in 2015 from...
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Publisher Annotation: 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 of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam;...
12) The only road
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous journey from his home in Guatemala to his older brother in New Mexico after his cousin is murdered by a drug cartel"--
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.
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Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After traveling to Tijuana, Mexico, Noemi and her mother are denied entry at the border. They must find the refugee in charge of the notebook, an unofficial ledger of those waiting to cross into the United States. Includes author's note.
18) On this airplane
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Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
"On this airplane...Someone travels solo, two travel as one, three return and four set out. In this simple and moving book, a young family takes a plane to their new home. While onboard, they encounter all the people you meet on a plane: a bookworm, a businessperson, tourists, crying babies and daydreamers...all with their own stories, all heading somewhere special." -- Inside front cover.
19) Islandborn
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English
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"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
20) All of me
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Mexico and the United States share the greatest border between the first and third world. Thousands of migrants expose themselves to every danger as they travel north on a train called The Beast. That's where they meet the Patronas, a group of Mexican women who, every day since 1995, make food and toss it to the helpless as the train rushes by.
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