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Coming to America
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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. |
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Speak up, Tommy!
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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… |
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Money Boy
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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… |
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Oranges And Sunshine Empty Cradles
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Margaret Humphreys |
383 p., [16] p. of plates : 20 cm |
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Dear Canada
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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 … |
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The Water Is Wide
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David Neufeld |
This book journals the experiences of three families, in three different eras, as they emigrate to America. |
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Cuss
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Kristine L. Franklin |
This book is a touching story of a boy becoming a man. |
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Illegal
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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 … |
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Lost Children Archive
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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… |
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When Christmas feels like home
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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… |
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The girl in the torch
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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 … |
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Des pas sur la neige
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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… |
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Twist of Gold
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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… |
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The stranger house
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Reginald Hill |
For more than five hundred years weary travelers have been coming to the Stranger House—an out-of-the-way inn in the tiny village of Illthwaite in Cumbria, England. Now two very different visito… |
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Lazy Eye
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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… |
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