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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself."--
5) Mustafa
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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Children's Books Celebrating Diversity
Description
After leaving his war-torn country with his family, Mustafa visits a park near his new home and finds beautiful flowers, lady bugs, fall leaves, and finally, a friend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
42 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Being the new girl's buddy is a VERY important job. Billie is excited! But what happens when the new girl starts to copy everything Billie does?" -- Page [4] of cover.
9) Islandborn
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
10) Mama the alien
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A young girl misunderstands the word alien on her mother's Resident Alien Card and let's her imagination run wild, coming to the conclusion that her mother is from outer space."
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
85 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin eagerly helps her cousin Ana, newly arrived from Russia, to adjust to life in New York City, but when their teacher says the two must sing together at a school assembly, Rebecca worries that her big moment will be ruined.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life...
13) All my rage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Joe came to America from Africa when he was young. He worked hard in school, made friends, and embraced his new home. Like so many immigrants before and after him, Joe succeeded when many thought he would fail. In telling the story of how his father came to America, Doyin Richards tells the story of many immigrants, and opens the experience up to readers of all backgrounds. Here is a moving and empowering story of how many different...
15) City of orphans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year- old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang whose shadowy, sinister boss is plotting to take control of all the newsies on the lower East Side. With Bruno’s boys in fierce pursuit, Maks discovers Willa, a strange girl who lives alone in an alley. It is she, stick in hand, who fights off the Plug Uglies...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
Español
Description
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (31 pages) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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Description
When his mother is sent back to Mexico for not having the proper immigration papers, Jos©♭ and his father travel from San Diego, California, to visit her in Tijuana.
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