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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
American victory	Henry Cejudo	The son of illegal Mexican immigrants, Henry Cejudo surprised the world by winning an Olympic gold medal in wrestling for the U.S.A. in Beijing. This is his inspiring story...Henry Cejudo's remarkabl…	OL13841492W
Remix	Marina Tamar Budhos,Marina, T. Budhos	Presents profiles of fourteen teenagers from countries around the world, revealing their struggles to fit into American society and their personal triumphs.	OL14868078W
American victory	Henry Cejudo	The son of illegal Mexican immigrants, Henry Cejudo surprised the world by winning an Olympic gold medal in wrestling for the U.S.A. in Beijing--the first American in sixteen years to win the gold me…	OL15581357W
Minority students in East Asia	Yuxiang Wang,JoAnn Phillion,Ming-tak Hue	"In <EM>Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses </EM>authors discuss their research on minority students' schooling (elementary to higher education…	OL16212461W
Kurze Geschichte des Traktors auf Ukrainisch	Marina Lewycka	Original: A Short History of Tractors in Ukraininan	OL16582065W
Thief Girl	Ingrid Lee	Sixteen-year-old Avvy Go straddles the line between the immigrant neighbourhood were she lives and works and the established neighbourhood where she attends high school, the line between right and wr…	OL16629852W
Race and education	Sally Tomlinson	Provides crucial information on key educational issues, events and conflicts in Britain from the 1960s to the present day.	OL16924682W
Biografía para uso de los pájaros	María Fernanda Moscoso R.	«En ejercicio respetuoso, con la reflexividad de la antropóloga que se debate entre la interpretación y el dejar fluir las voces que encontró, María Fernanda Moscoso nos entrega una versión de éxodo …	OL17930015W
The Prodigal Daughter	Jeffrey Archer	HER FUTURE IS AMBITION. With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel’s daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future.…	OL1807139W
A short history of tractors in Ukrainian	Marina Lewycka	With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and …	OL18178735W
A Chinaman's chance	Eric Liu	"From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent uniqu…	OL19669596W
In the country we love	Diane Guerrero	"Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the new black and Jane the virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at sc…	OL19740881W
El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)	Jhumpa Lahiri	Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate the awkward name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited…	OL2001056W
Educating immigrant children	Charles Leslie Glenn	Surveys educational policies and practices in response to language diversity in twelve countries, and draws from them lessons for a more effective whole-school approach. Policies and practices are di…	OL20140702W
Let's talk about when your parent doesn't speak English	Maureen Wittbold	Briefly describes why a person's parent may not speak English, what effect this may have on a child, and how to handle this situation.	OL2039127W
Trespass	Valerie Martin	Chloe Dale's life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades…	OL21587674W
Proud Americans	Judie Fertig Panneton	"Children of immigrants are different. They are their parents' guides to American ways. In Proud Americans : Growing Up As Children of Immigrants, they share personal accounts of merging cultures and…	OL24293699W
Teaching children English	David Vale	Teaching Children English is a training course for teachers of English as a foreign language to young learners, aged 7 years and over. The book is intended for native and non-native teachers, and the…	OL2510499W
Snowleg	Nicholas Shakespeare	"A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and, during his brief excursion behind the Iron Curtain, falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to th…	OL40768W
I Am a Pencil	Sam Swope	"When worn-down and somewhat cranky children's-book writer Sam Swope agreed to give a writing workshop in Queens, he became so energized by his twenty-eight students that he "adopted" the class. For …	OL451583W