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Author
Series
Journey to America volume 3
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fleeing their home in Cambodia, thirteen-year-old Chantrea Conway and her grandparents experience loss, starvation, and deceit in their search for safety and news of Chantrea's missing American father.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Killing down (108 min.): An Army vet searching for the truth with the man he thinks tortured him seven years ago. But how can he be sure? With limited resources and few details he must take down his torturer and expose the unsettling truth.
The scratch (92 min.): A rookie private eye and his team put together a plan to rescue a kidnapped computer hacker who down,loaded something he shouldn't have. A simple heist -- rescue the hacker and retrieve...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private - from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade - obliges the Court to understand and consider circumstances beyond America's borders."--Provided by publisher.
605) Small Island
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
606) Fast Food Nation
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
If it's true that we are what we eat, then how do we even know who we are? Don Anderson is trying to balance his search for the truth with an apparent desire not to do anything that might hurt his career. Raul and Sylvia, having crossed the border illegally, take up dangerous, stomach-turning jobs at the meat-processing plant. Amber is a teenage burger-slinger who wants to both change the world and get out of town. These two desires--to fight the...
607) Like a dandelion
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Like feathery seeds, a young girl and her mother take flight, putting down roots in an adopted country. Soon they blossom in their new home, strong and beautiful among hundreds of others just like them. . . A poetic tribute to the bravery of immigrants and refugees, inspired by the author's childhood experience of moving to the United States from Cambodia"--
608) Silver days
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In this sequel to Journey to America, the reunited Platt family works hard at settling in to America, but the spectre of the war in Europe continues to affect their lives.
609) A house of tailors
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland . . . and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
Author
Series
Journey to America volume 1
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
They left their homeland during the worst moments in history - and arrived in America ready to reach their dreams.
614) Emma's new beginning
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In 1910 eleven-year-old Emma and her ethnically German family immigrate to America from Russia to escape poverty and tyranny, but on her journey she encounters hardships on the overcrowded ship, inspection at Ellis Island, and the struggle to reunite with her father and brother in North Dakota.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she'll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape. One day, she meets her neighbor, a boy named Luke, and begins to feel a little more...
618) A history of burning
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of Kampala during the waning days of British colonial rule....
Author
Description
Book 2 in the new series that is captivating fans of Divergent, The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and Stranger Things ... NINE NIGHTS AGO, EIGHT CHILDREN WERE KIDNAPPED. NOW, THEY ARE ABOUT TO FACE THE GREATEST CHALLENGE OF THEIR LIVES. From the author of the heart-pounding mystery thriller THE UNKNOWN comes a riveting sequel that climaxes with a shocking twist you'll never see coming. THE HAVEN is book two in a completed series of two full-length...
620) Jimena Prez can fly
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ten-year-old Jimena loves El Salvador but when gangs threaten to force her to join, she and her mother immigrate to the United States, but are separated at the border.