Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Coming to America Coming to America Bernard Wolf Depicts the joys and hardships experienced by a Muslim family that immigrates to New York City from Alexandria, Egypt, in the hope of making a better life life for themselves. OL15214735W
Speak up, Tommy! Speak up, Tommy! Jacqueline Dembar Greene Tommy, who recently moved to America from Israel, is teased because he does not know English well and so does not speak loudly, but when a police officer visits Tommy's class with a police dog that o… OL16175886W
Money Boy Money Boy Paul Yee It's bad enough fitting in as a young Chinese immigrant in a new country. But what happens when your father finds out you're gay and kicks you out of the house? How tough can life be on the street? R… OL16550326W
Oranges And Sunshine Empty Cradles Oranges And Sunshine Empty Cradles Margaret Humphreys 383 p., [16] p. of plates : 20 cm OL17484511W
Dear Canada Dear Canada Carol Matas Isobel thinks that she and her family will find their fortune in Canada. But Isobel's mother dies before they even cross the ocean, and other misfortunes follow their every step. Isobel's family and … OL18010801W
The Water Is Wide The Water Is Wide David Neufeld This book journals the experiences of three families, in three different eras, as they emigrate to America. OL18182720W
Cuss Cuss Kristine L. Franklin This book is a touching story of a boy becoming a man. OL1954681W
Illegal Illegal Andrew Donkin,Eoin Colfer "Ilegal es un relato sobre la irreductible lucha de un niño, Ebo, por alcanzar una nueva vida y reunirse con su hermana, ausente desde hace meses. Ahora su hermano también ha desaparecido y Ebo sabe … OL19740915W
Lost Children Archive Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona i… OL19865299W
When Christmas feels like home When Christmas feels like home Gretchen Griffith "After moving from a small village in Mexico to a town in the United States, Eduardo is sure it will never feel quite like home. The other children don't speak his language and they do not play fútbo… OL19971890W
The girl in the torch The girl in the torch Rob Sharenow After her father is killed in a pogrom, twelve-year-old Sarah and her mother immigrate to America--but when her mother dies before they get through Ellis Island, and the authorities want to send her … OL20002105W
Des pas sur la neige Des pas sur la neige Carol Matas In 1815, after immigrating from Scotland to Canada, thirteen-year-old Isobel chronicles her family's experiences as they adjust to their new home in Rupert's Land, Manitoba, with the help of their Cr… OL26439573W
Twist of Gold Twist of Gold Michael Morpurgo With only the mythical luck of a golden torc, the necklace of their ancestors, to protect them, Sean and Annie O'Brien leave famine-stricken Ireland to search for their father in a strange land calle… OL42745W
The stranger house The stranger house Reginald Hill For more than five hundred years weary travelers have been coming to the Stranger House&#8212an out-of-the-way inn in the tiny village of Illthwaite in Cumbria, England. Now two very different visito… OL57011W
Lazy Eye Lazy Eye Donna Daley-Clarke,Donna Daley-clarke Racial tensions and the plight of immigrant life in 1970s England create the backdrop for this 2006 Commonwealth Prize winner for Best First Book. Frustrated by racial taunts, pelted with banana skin… OL8998536W