Krans, Angela Pham
Summary: "Follows young Mai and her mother's perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa--who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRABetancourt-Perez, Jessica
Summary: Newly arrived from Colombia, Isabella's first day of school in the United States is cancelled because of snow and when Isabella notices a girl playing outside she makes a new friend, despite the language barrier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BETPhi, Bao
Summary: Every child is bursting with amazing possibilities and poet Bao Phi celebrates the complex identity of the children of immigrants and refugees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHIHill, Reginald.
Summary: The tiny village of Illthwaite in Cumbria, England, seems to be the kind of place where nothing much has happened for the last few centuries. But the two young strangers who arrive there on the same dank autumn day soon find that appearances are deceptive. Samantha Flood and Miguel Madero have absolutely nothing in common--except a burning desire to find out more about possible connections...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILKhan, Ausma Zehanat
Summary: "From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and powerful crime series, introducing Detective Inaya Rahman. Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls largely ignored. At last, the calls for justice become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHANiebuhr-Siebert, Sandra
Summary: Mina is worried about starting a new kindergarten in her new country. The classroom is full of laughter, friendly faces and fun things to do, but the only word Mina can understand is her name. As she listens to stories and songs, chatter and instructions, Mina's understanding steadily grows. She tries out sounds that roar in her throat and tickle her tongue until the new words feel like her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NIEObuobi, Shirlene
Summary: For fans of Grey's Anatomy and Seven Days in June, this dazzling debut novel by Shirlene Obuobi explores that time in your life when you must decide what you want, how to get it, & who you are, all while navigating love, friendship, and the realization that the path you're traveling is going to be a bumpy ride.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBUTang, Marie
Summary: Yuna, who recently moved to the United States and does not speak English, is struggling to communicate with kids in her new neighborhood, but when she shows that she can do something very special with paper, a whole new world unfolds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books, an imprint of 1517 Media 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TANTran-Davies, Nhung N.
Summary: "A children's picture book inspired by author Nhung N. Tran-Davies's experience as a child refugee from Vietnam, and then sponsoring a family of Syrian refugees as an adult."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TRAWang, Andrea
Summary: "Though they may speak different languages, kids from all over the world come together to enjoy the shared pastime of tea in this delicious book for young readers. When five-year-old Luli joins her new English as a Second Language class, the playroom is quiet. Luli can't speak English, neither can anyone else. That's when she has a brilliant idea to host a tea party and bring them all together....
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG WANWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are lots of reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from. Maybe it's what you eat or something just as random. Whatever it is, it's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody knows you, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG WOOHitchcock, Shannon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Noura and her family, fleeing war in Syria, have been granted asylum in the United States, but they arrive in Florida to the chaos of the president's Muslim ban; twelve-year-old Jordyn is a member of the Christian church that is sponsoringthe Alwan family, and Noura's student ambassador in middle school; their inevitable culture clash is made far worse by the wave of hate crimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HITDel Rizzo, Suzanne
Summary: "A young girl introduces herself to a new neighbor from Syria and bonds with him over shared interests in nature, birdwatching, and finding small treasures. His anxieties about his new life are eased when his knowledge from having pet pigeons in Syria helps save an injured cardinal. Polymer clay art depicts fall and winter scenes in a neighborhood where most residents are immigrants and where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Arnaldur Indridason
Summary: On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Luiselli 2019Weinstein, Ellen
Summary: "Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Morales, Areli
Summary: "In the first picture book written by a DACA dreamer, Areli Morales tells her own powerful and vibrant immigration story of moving from a quiet town in Mexico to the bustling and noisy metropolis of New York City"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a unique collaboration with photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, eighteen immigrant teenagers create an alphabet defining their experiences in pictures and words. Wendy helped the teenagers pose for and design the photographs, interviewing them along the way about their own journeys and perspectives. America Border Culture Dreamer presents Wendy and the students' poignant and powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.23 EWAAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTRivera, Lilliam
Summary: "Jessica Cruz has done everything right. She's a dedicated student, popular among her classmates, and has a loving family that has done everything they can to give her a better life in the United States. While Jessica is a part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, allowing her to go to school and live in the U.S., her parents are undocumented. Jessica usually worries for her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 RIVYang, Kelly
Summary: "After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC YANRivero, Melissa
Summary: "Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It's been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martín, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers a note written in her mother's handwriting: Perdóname si te falle. Recuerda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023