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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"At Issue: Should the US Close Its Borders?: Books in this anthology series focus a wide range of viewpoints onto a single controversial issue, providing in-depth discussions by leading advocates, a quick grounding in the issues, and a challenge to critical thinking skills"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
" In 1944, at the height of World War II, 982 European refugees found a temporary haven at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. They were men, women, and children who had spent frightening years one step ahead of Nazi pursuers and death. They spoke nineteen different languages, and, while most of the refugees were Jewish, a number were Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant Christians. From the time they arrived at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee...
628) Ashes of roses
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
629) Yes! We are Latinos
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A collection of stories about young Latino's immigrant experiences in the United States.
630) Drita, My Homegirl
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Jenny Lombard draws on her background as a public school teacher to fashion an urban multiethnic/racial story that presents in alternating first-person chapters the evolution of an unlikely and difficult friendship--that of an African-American girl from the neighborhood and the unwelcome new kid in class: a girl from Kosovo who speaks no English.
631) The darkest evening
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.
632) Hao: stories
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"[A] debut collection of short stories by a three-time Pushcart Prize winner following Chinese women in both China and the United States who turn to signs and languages as they cross the alien landscapes of migration and motherhood."--
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
"In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapting her own lectures for Princeton University's Toni Morrison Lecture Series, Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a...
Author
Series
Journey to America volume 1
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The story of a young girl, Fiona, and her brother who emigrate to escape the Irish potato famine. Fiona is an almost preternaturally strong, brave, and lucky girl. In Ireland she saved her brother from a bull and arranged to free corn held back by British landlords. What's more, after being in America only a short time, she's taken under the wing of a lonely, wealthy woman and shortly thereafter finds her own wealthy cousins.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"An esteemed journalist delivers a compelling on-the-ground account of the construction of President Trump's border wall in San Diego-and the impact on the lives of local residents. In August of 2019, Donald Trump finished building his border wall-at least a portion of it. In San Diego, the Army Corps of engineers completed two years of construction on a 14-mile steel beamed barrier that extends eighteen-feet high and cost a staggering $147 million....
639) Lobizona
Author
Series
Wolves of no world volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Manuela Azul se encuentra atrapada en una existencia que resulta demasiado pequeña para ella. Como inmigrante indocumentada que debe huir de la familia criminal de su padre en ARgentina, Manu se ve confinada a un pequeño apartamento y a una vida discreta en Miami, Florida. Hasta que la burbuja que la protegía estalla. Atacan a su abuela adoptiva. Muchas mentiras salen a la luz. El Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas arresta a su madre....
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"In 2001 a bill was presented to the US Congress, known as the DREAM Act. The purpose of this bill was to fix the immigration status of almost two million undocumented youth who came to the country as minors through no choice of their own but now as young adults, with no legal identity, they may be unable to attend college, and live under the constant threat of deportation. These young people are known as Dreamers. As part of activist organizations...
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