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The Orange Houses
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Paul Griffin |
Meet Tamika Sykes - Mik to her friends (if she had any). She's hearing impaired and way too smart for her West Bronx high school. She copes by reading lips and selling homework answers, and looks for… |
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Abela
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Berlie Doherty |
Roman de société
Abela vit en Tanzanie. Ses parents et sa petite sœur viennent de mourir du sida. Abela n'a plus que sa grand-mère « Bibi ». Son oncle, Thomas qui veut obtenir des papiers pour vivre… |
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Crossing the wire
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Will Hobbs |
The book is about a 15 year old boy who tries to cross the border from Mexico to the states.It tells about his hardships getting there and his interactions,I recommend this book.I had to read it for … |
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Desert Angel
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Charlie Price |
In the California desert, fourteen-year-old Angel is on the run from the man who abused her, killed her mother, and intends to kill her too. |
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Star in the forest
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Laura Resau |
After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she … |
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The stranger at the window
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Vivien Alcock |
At first eleven-year-old Leslie doesn't like the three older Harwood children who live next-door to her aunt in London, but she comes to see them differently when she is drawn into their efforts to h… |
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Ambassador
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William Alexander |
Appointed Earth's ambassador to the universe, twelve-year-old Gabe Fuentes faces two sets of "alien" problems when he discovers his parents are illegal aliens and face deportation and the Earth is in… |
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Canned and crushed
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Bibi Belford |
When his father, who is in the United States illegally, becomes injured and unemployed, eleven-year-old Sandro is determined to help his parents raise money for his little sister's heart surgery by c… |
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Bridge
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Patrick Jones |
Eighteen-year-old Jose serves as the bridge between his non-English speaking family and the rest of the world, and because his parents are illegal immigrants and extended family lives with them, mone… |
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Americanized
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Sara Saedi |
"At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled I… |
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All you get is me
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Yvonne Prinz |
Almost sixteen-year-old city-transplant Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm as she navigates an eventful summer when she falls in love, discovers that her mother has left for good, and watch… |
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Heat
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Mike Lupica |
**Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family's … |
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Grab hands and run
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Frances Temple |
After his father disappears, twelve-year-old Felipe, his mother, and his younger sister set out on a difficult and dangerous journey, trying to make their way from their home in El Salvador to Canada. |
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Journey of the Sparrows
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Fran Leeper Buss |
Maria and her brother and sister, Salvadoran refugees, are smuggled into the United States in crates and try to eke out a living in Chicago with the help of a sympathetic family. |
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