Emigration & Immigration
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My Family Divided: One Girl’s Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope
$9.99 Add to cartDiane Guerrero, the star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, presents her personal story in this middle-grade memoir about her parents’ deportation and the nightmarish struggles of undocum
- Author: Guerrero, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 16, 2019
- ISBN10: 125030878X
- Language: English
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Land of Broken Promises
$18.99 Add to cartTaiwanese immigrant Anna and her family make a shocking discovery that puts their American dreams at risk in this searing companion to In the Beautiful Country, which Gene Luen Yang called “vivid and
- Author: Kuo, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 6, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063119048
- Language: English
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A Bit of Earth
$19.99 Read more“Karuna Riazi has a way with words. This story will find its way into your heart.”–Tae Keller, Newbery Medalist for When You Trap a Tiger
“As timeless as it is timely, A Bit of Earth is a rare gift.”–
- Author: Riazi, Karuna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063098660
- Language: English
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Half A Century Ago
$14.95 Add to cartHalf a Century Ago offers a vivid recollection of memories about coming of age in the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s. This engaging story is an empowering read about how family love provided the founda
- Author: Arias, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798889822592
- Language: English
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Don’t Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America
$18.99 Read moreIn this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don’t Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity,
- Author: Deng, Achut
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0374389721
- Language: English
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How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
$15.99 Add to cartJunior Library Guild Selection * New York Public Library’s Best Books for Teens * Goodreads Choice Awards Nonfiction Finalist * Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books for Teens: Nonfiction *
- Author: Uwiringiyimana, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062470159
- Language: English
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail Volume 36
$37.43 Add to cartIn this gripping and provocative “ethnography of death,” anthropologist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Jason De Le n sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time–the human cons… [more below]
- Series: California Public Anthropology #36
- Author: de Leon, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 23 2015
- ISBN10: 520282752
- Language: English
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Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
$35.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War.
In the three decades bef- Author: Holzer, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 451489012
- Language: English
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The Cricket War
$19.99 Add to cartA gripping story of a boy’s escape from Communist Vietnam by boat, based on the author’s own experience.
It’s 1980, and 12-year-old Tho Pham lives with his family in South Vietnam. He spends his after
- Author: Pham, Tho
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: 3-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 1525306553
- Language: English
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?De D?nde Eres?: Where Are You From? (Spanish Edition)
$19.99 Add to cartSilver Medalist for Bank Street College of Education’s Best Spanish Language Picture Books of the Year Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2019 Named one of New York Public Library’s Top Ten Los
- Author: Méndez, Yamile Saied
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: 4-Jun-19
- ISBN10: 0062915258
- Language: English
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Uprising
$13.99 Add to cartThe fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the
- Author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2011
- ISBN10: 1416911723
- Language: English
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Tomatoes in My Lunchbox
$18.99 Read moreA moving picture book from a debut author about the first day of school, layered with themes about the immigrant experience and the universal experience of feeling out of place.
A child, newly arrived- Author: Manoli, Costantia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1250763126
- Language: English
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The Words We Share
$18.99 Add to cart“Beautifully written and illustrated. . . . I am so glad this book exists in the world.”–Bao Phi, author of the Caldecott Honor and Zolotow Award-winning A Different Pond
A young girl helps her dad na
- Author: Wong, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: 10-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 1773217976
- Language: English
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We’re Not from Here
$8.99 Add to cartImagine being forced to move to a new planet where YOU are the alien! From the creator of the Tapper Twins, New York Times bestselling author Geoff Rodkey delivers a topical, sci-fi middle-grade novel… [more below]
- Author: Rodkey, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: 10-Mar-20
- ISBN10: 1524773077
- Language: English
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Frontera
$26.99 Add to cartYALSA 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
2024 Texas Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List
Mateo makes the dangerous journey back home to the United States through the Sonoran Desert with the help of a n
- Author: Anta, Julio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0063054957
- Language: English
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Mi Papá Es Un AgrÃcola / My Father, the Farm Worker
$19.99 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated with the gifted colors of Mother Earth, introduce little ones to the hardship and tireless days of a farm worker – in English and Spanish!
A 2024 Pura Belpr? Youth Illustration
- Author: Perez Varela, J. Roman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1948066750
- Language: English
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Alterations
$14.99 Read moreFor fans of Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese and Svetlana Chmakova’s Awkward, this funny yet poignant middle-grade coming-of-age story highlights the struggle of feeling invisible while yearning… [more below]
- Author: Xu, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1454945850
- Language: English
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The Color Collector
$17.99 Add to cartThe Color Collector is a poignant story about newness, friendship, and common ground. When a boy notices the new girl picking up all manner of debris and litter on their walks home from school he want… [more below]
- Author: Solis, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1534111050
- Language: English
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Enrique’s Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother
$11.99 Add to cartAdapted for young people, this edition of Enrique’s Journey is written by Sonia Nazario and based on the adult book of the same name. It is the true story of Enrique, a teenager from Honduras, who set
- Author: Nazario, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0385743289
- Language: English
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Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla
$17.99 Read moreTwo starred reviews!
“Perfect for fans of Margarita Engle and impactful historical fiction” (School Library Journal, starred review), this “evocative and transportive” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)- Author: Diaz, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1534495401
- Language: English
