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Riley Donovan 1Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: "As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E PHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHIChariandy, David John
Summary: "One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHAFaulks, Sebastian
Summary: American historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city where a youthful misadventure once left her dejected. But a chance encounter with Tariq, a Moroccan teenager whose visions of the City of Lights as a world of opportunity and rebirth starkly contrast with her own, disrupts her plan. Hannah agrees to take Tariq in as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FAUMcClintock, Norah
Summary: "Riley Donovan is the new kid in town. When her next-door neighbor's barn catches on fire, with him inside it, Riley helps save him. But rather than being hailed a hero, Riley finds herself a target of harassment. When her neighbor is accused of starting the fire, Riley believes he is innocent and is determined to prove it--even if it means making powerful enemies."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MCCGiff, Patricia Reilly.
Summary: When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Giff 2009Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC GIFCastellani, Christopher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASYang, Kelly
Summary: Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was anengineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YANBehar, Ruth
Summary: In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BEHAvi
Summary: In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LAIHerrndorf, Wolfgang
Summary: Mike Klingenberg is a troubled fourteen-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin who thinks of himself as boring, so when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to him and include Mike in his criminal activities, he isexcited--until those activities lead to disaster on the autobahn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Herrndorf 2014Hopkinson, Deborah
Summary: In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HOPAvi
Summary: In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Avi 2011Ringgold, Faith
Summary: Celebrates United States immigration and the country's diverse immigrant heritage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RINSteel, Danielle
Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: Life has suddenly turned chaotic for high school student Stella since her brother, Rob, got home from his second tour of duty in Afghanistan: her school is on edge with ethnic tensions and her brother seems to be suffering from post-traumatic stress but will not talk about it. But when Rob's anger finally spirals out of control, Stella realizes she has to find the courage to take a stand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LITSchoenewaldt, Pamela.
Summary: "A tale rich in color, character, and vivid historical detail, When we were strangers chronicles the tumultuous life journey of a young immigrant seamstress, as she travels from her isolated Italian mountain village through the dark corners of late nineteenth century America."--from publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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Summary: Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Henriquez 2014Curtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CURCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damagethose events caused to the survivors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Curtis 2014Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CURAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: A collection of stories about young Latino's immigrant experiences in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0468 ADAMcBride, Laura.
Summary: An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker, and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBVerna, Harmony
Summary: "An historical novel set in 1914 that follows a family of German immigrants who trade city living for the harsh realities of Pennsylvania farm life. Among other challenges, anti-German sentiment spreads across America with the outbreak of World War I"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018