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Czech Americans Fiction Czechoslovak Americans Mexican Americans Fiction Mexican Americans Juvenile fiction Mexicans United States Fiction Mexicans United States Juvenile fiction Nebraska Fiction United States History 20th century Fiction United States History 20th century Juvenile fiction Women pioneers FictionCather, Willa
Summary: Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high spirited daughter of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia's lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Cather 2007Svoboda, Terese.
Summary: A young girl named Harriet is sold into slavery by her father to settle his gambling debt, and when she escapes and embarks on a journey to find her father, Harriet encounters a series of adventures in the American West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SVOCather, Willa
Summary: Depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who is the embodiment of the pioneer spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CATSlouka, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLOMobley, Jeannie.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOBRomero, R. M. (Rachel Maria)
Summary: Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez--a biracial Jewish girl--finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable career. When she discovers a forgotten Jewish cemetery behind her aunt's cottage, she meets the ghost of a kindhearted boy named Benjamin, who died over a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROMSánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH SANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SANMartinez, Claudia Guadalupe
Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARContents: The Czechoslovak immigration to the United States of America / Dr. George J. Švejda -- Statistics on the Czechs and Slovaks in the United States / Vratislav Bušek -- Moravian Bethlehem, U.S.A. / Andrew Paul Slabey -- The Czechs and Slovaks of New York / Vratislav Bušek and Rev. Ján Shimtay -- Czechs of Chicago / Joseph Čada -- Czechs in Texas / Joseph Mali̕k -- The Czechs in Iowa -- Czechs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Czechoslovak National Council of America 1970