Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration
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Amina Banana and the Formula for Making Money
$6.99 Add to cartThird-grader Amina Banana is back in book three of this chapter book series, navigating new responsibilities at home and growing financial stresses, from National Book Award winner Shifa Safadi.
When- Series: Amina Banana
- Author: Safadi, Shifa Saltagi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0593699181
- Language: English
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Ren’s Pencil: A Picture Book
$18.99 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated tale of immigration and imagination, about the struggle to fit into a new place, make new friends, and see yourself in new stories–from Bo Lu, Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Ho… [more below]
- Author: Lu, Bo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1419769227
- Language: English
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The Blue House I Loved
$17.95 Add to cartA Hmong girl tells the story of her beloved aunt and uncle’s first home in America–long gone, but still alive in the family’s memories
The Blue House I Loved centers on a family of newly arrived Hmo
- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1517907977
- Language: English
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The Boy from Mexico Becomes a Us Citizen
$19.99 Add to cart“Edward Dennis’s grandfather, who came from Mexico to the United States and became a migrant farmworker, is at the center of Dennis’s book, which spotlights the valuable contributions of immigrants in
- Series: Boy from Mexico
- Author: Dennis, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1684817595
- Language: English
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Papi’s Pan Dulce
$21.95 Add to cartAnn has a great love for her Papi’s cakes and especially his pan dulce, the sweet bread that he makes at his panaderia. She can hardly wait to see how Papi decorates her birthday cake this year! Ann h
- Author: Escorza-Jaime, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1779444559
- Language: English
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Amina Banana and the Formula for Making Money
$16.99 Add to cartThird-grader Amina Banana is back in book three of this chapter book series, navigating new responsibilities at home and growing financial stresses, from National Book Award winner Shifa Safadi.
When- Series: Amina Banana
- Author: Safadi, Shifa Saltagi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0593699246
- Language: English
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Caravan to the North: Misael’s Long Walk
$14.99 Add to cartAn urgent and eloquent account of a boy traveling in a caravan from his beloved homeland of El Salvador to the US border.
This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael Mart?nez, a
- Author: Argueta, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1773067400
- Language: English
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The Diamond Explorer
$9.99 Add to cartFrom APALA-winning author and Guggenheim Fellow Kao Kalia Yang, a middle-grade debut about a Hmong American boy’s struggle to find a place for himself in America and in the world of his ancestors.
Mal- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1984816357
- Language: English
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Lily’s Hong Kong Honey Cake
$19.95 Add to cart“An enjoyable, inspiring story”–The Historical Novel Society
Based on the history of Jewish refugees in Asia and spanning multiple years during World War II, this picture book shows how some creativit
- Author: Lyons, Erica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1681156768
- Language: English
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The Last Last
$19.99 Add to cartMum and Grannie rush about and pack our things … but I don’t want to leave our island home!
The girl in this story is immigrating with her family from Jamaica to Canada. On this last day before they
- Author: Whittingham, Wendy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1773068652
- Language: English
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I Came Here for You
$20.99 Add to cartWhat the Book is About:
“I Came Here For You” tells the heartwarming story of Little Seed, who leaves his home in the Ancient Forest to find a new place to grow. With the help of an albatross, he disc
- Author: Boules, Marianne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1662953585
- Language: English
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Nana’s Big Surprise / Nana, ?Qu? Sorpresa!
$11.95 Read moreBilingual English/Spanish. Amada and her brothers try to comfort their grandmother, Nana, who has come to stay with them in the US from Mexico after abuelo passes away.
Nana’s move from Mexico should b
- Author: Irma Perez, Amada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0892393076
- Language: Spanish
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My Home Is in My Backpack
$18.99 Add to cartClara and her family are forced to leave everything behind in this poignant but hopeful story of forced migration, told through the eyes of a young refugee.
“We all carry our special homes with us – i
- Author: Perrella, Eugenia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1782509259
- Language: English
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The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls
$17.99 Add to cartA child of immigrants feels caught between two worlds and two selves in this powerful, luminous middle grade historical novel about self-determination, community, and what it means to belong–perfect … [more below]
- Author: Coats, J. Anderson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1665968613
- Language: English
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Brown Girl in the Snow
$19.95 Add to cartPerfect for kids aged 4-8 comes a stunning picture book about persistence, being creative in the garden, and adapting to a new place.
When Amina moves from the Caribbean to a new snowy home, she misse- Author: Marshall, Yolanda T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1771649267
- Language: English
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Displaced
$18.99 Add to cartFourteen-year-old Kimathi has a comfortable life in the suburbs of western Kenya–until a contentious election explodes into violence.
His father is killed, his house is destroyed, and he and his mo
- Author: Ochieng, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765648698
- Language: English
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My Sister the Apple Tree: A Refugee Story of Hope and Resilience
$18.99 Add to cartIn this moving picture book, inspired by the author’s experience as a Syrian refugee, a child’s profound love for his family’s apple tree gives him courage when he must flee his homeland.
When a young- Author: Scott, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 059380841X
- Language: English
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Safe Harbor
$17.99 Add to cartAn uplifting novel in verse about an immigrant girl adjusting to life in the US through her love of nature, music, and poetry, by the award-winning author of The Bridge Home
When Geetha and her mom mo- Author: Venkatraman, Padma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593112504
- Language: English
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Al Otro Lado del R?o / The Other Side of the River
$14.95 Add to cartDe la autora de Los sue?os descalzos de Petra Luna, Libro de Honor Pura Belpr? 2022, llega una nueva y fascinante novela sobre una ni?a de doce a?os que construye una nueva vida en Estados Unidos.
Pe- Series: Petra Luna
- Author: Dobbs, Alda P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1644738449
- Language: Spanish
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Kamau and Zuzu Find a Way: A Picture Book
$18.95 Add to cartA stirring story of African diaspora, resourcefulness, and intergenerational love by National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and renowned poet Aracelis Girmay, and acclaimed illustrator Diana Ejai
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1592703895
- Language: English
