Filter By Subjects
Emigration and immigration Emigration and immigration Social aspects Emigration and immigration Social aspects Juvenile literature Immigrants Immigrants United States History Immigrants United States History Juvenile literature United States United States Emigration and immigration History United States Emigration and immigration History Juvenile literature United States Emigration and immigration Juvenile literatureFilter By Subjects
Emigration and immigration Emigration and immigration Social aspects Emigration and immigration Social aspects Juvenile literature Immigrants Immigrants United States History Immigrants United States History Juvenile literature United States United States Emigration and immigration History United States Emigration and immigration History Juvenile literature United States Emigration and immigration Juvenile literatureSmall, Cathleen
Summary: What do Yoko Ono, Psy, and Pel have in common? They are all considered immigrants of extraordinary ability. What does this distinction mean, and how can someone earn it? Readers discover the answers to these and many more questions as they explore the lives of some of the most famous immigrants of extraordinary ability. The engaging, informative text provides readers with a closer look at this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.9 SMAHavemeyer, Janie
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Chinese immigrants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HAVFord, Jeanne Marie
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Indian immigrants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 FORMaurer, Gretchen
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Filipino immigrants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MAUHutchison, Patricia
Summary: "Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Somali immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HUTMortensen, Lori
Summary: Describes Angel Island Immigration Station and why it is a symbol of hope and struggle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MORMacCarald, Clara
Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Japanese immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, and additional resources for further study.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MACOmoth, Tyler
Summary: "Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Italian immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 OMOPeters, Lisa Westberg
Summary: "This lyrical and extremely timely picture book illuminates the many different migrants who have made their homes in North America through the centuries"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 304.8 PETOmoth, Tyler
Summary: "Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Cuban immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 OMOMasih, Tara Lynn
Summary: "A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Dollarhide, William.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Quest Genealogical Service 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: R 973.0421 DOLHenzel, Cynthia Kennedy
Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Vietnamese immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HENKrans, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRACannato, Vincent J.
Summary: Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today it stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday--from 1892 to 1924--coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 325.73 CANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 CANČulen, Konštantín.
Summary: "Konštantin Culen was the first Slovak writer to undertake systematic research in the history of the American Slovaks, and the first to write a part of that history. He prepared many rich chapters on the history of parishes, movements, organizations, societies...Culen was the first to bring about a rapprochement between Slovak America and the land of its origins. And had he accomplished nothing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0049 CULHolzer, Harold
Summary: "From 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 before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and--perhaps most significantly--voting patterns....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Minian, Ana Raquel
Summary: "A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations around migration. In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under Trump's "family separation" policy. But as historian Ana Raquel Minian reveals in In the Shadow of Liberty, this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bausum, Ann.
Summary: An award-winning author examines the history of American immigration--a critical topic in 21st century America--particularly those lesser-known stories of immigrants who were denied entrance into the States or detained for security reasons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 BAUHutchison, Patricia
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Central American immigrants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HUTGoldberg, Vicki.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Photographic Arts 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779 GOLMonnig, Alex
Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of German immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MONFord, Jeanne Marie
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Catholic immigrants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2019