Buitrago, Jairo
Summary: In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH BUILupica, Mike.
Summary: Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Paperback, Call number: J FIC LUPDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: After learning of her family's illegal immigrant status, Jasmine realizes that college may be impossible and that deportation is a real threat, uncertainties she endures as she falls for the son of a congressman who opposes an immigration reform bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventeen Fiction from Harlequin Teen 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction De La Cruz 2016Yoon, Nicola
Summary: Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean-American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC YOOAlexander, William (William Joseph)
Summary: Appointed Earth's ambassador to the universe, twelve-year-old Gabe Fuentes faces two sets of "alien" problems when he discovers his parents are illegal aliens and face deportation and the Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force causing multiple mass extinctions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2014