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1) Heat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Author
Series
Petra Luna volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and lead her family to safety during the Mexican Revolution""--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Moving with his family from Korea to West Virginia, Hee Jun struggles to adjust to his new home, an unfamiliar language, and the different appearances of his classmates before making friends and bringing a familiar flower home to his grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follow a girl's perusal of her great-grandfather's collection of matchboxes and small curios that document his poignant immigration journey from Italy to a new country.
10) A different pond
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
11) We belong
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through a bedtime story to her daughters, a woman weaves together her immigration story and Pilipino mythology. Includes glossary, songs, and author's note.
12) Yossel's journey
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2022
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--Provided by the publisher.
13) One Green Apple
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Farah feels alone, even when surrounded by her classmates. She listens and nods but doesn't speak. It's hard being the new kid in school, especially when you're from another country and don't know the language. Then, on a field trip to an apple orchard, Farah discovers there are lots of things that sound the same as they did at home, from dogs crunching their food to the ripple of friendly laughter. As she helps the class make apple cider, Farah
...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"--
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy's life changes when his grandmother comes from India to live with the family in Mariposa, an island country known for its butterflies, that is becoming hostile to immigrants.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his family moves from a small Mexican village to North Carolina, Eduardo asks how soon he will feel at home, and slowly his Tio Miguel's seemingly impossible replies come true until, at last, he can put out the Nativity scene he carved with his grandfather.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Primera edici.
Language
Español
Description
"'El Camino de Marwan' esthecho de coraje y memoria. Muy lejos, en su tierra, viven sus recuerdoes. Marwan es un ni que, junto a otros milliones de seres humanos., atraviesa mares y desiertos, huyendo de la guerra y del hambre, en busca de otro lugar. Un paso y otro paso, una frontera, la voz materna y ascamina Marwan, llevando el lector de la mano, rumbo a la libertad."--from back c.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Spanish language edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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
Series
Inside Out and Back Again volume Sequel
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse inspired by the author's experience follows Hà and her family, refugees from the Vietnam War, as they move to Texas for a new job, and despite not wanting to start over again, Hà discovers unwanted change can bring a good opportunity.
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