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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects."--Page [2] of cover.
"own voices"
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
There will be times when you walk into a room
and no one there is quite like you.
There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.
Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael López's dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom's plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance (where she and her family are the only Asian Americans) and at the Golden Palace--the restaurant that's been in her family for generations--she makes some discoveries. For instance:
You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food.
And...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
10) Audacity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
It’s 1985 and ten-year-old Gabrielle is excited to be moving from Haiti to America. Unfortunately, her parents won’t be able to join her yet and she’ll be living in a place called Brooklyn, New York, with relatives she has never met. She promises her parents that she will behave, but life proves to be difficult in the United States, from learning the language to always feeling like she doesn’t fit in to being bullied. So when a witch offers...
12) You are life
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Every child is bursting with amazing possibilities and poet Bao Phi celebrates the complex identity of the children of immigrants and refugees.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Ninth grader Renata Nunes, a Brazilian immigrant who has won the lead part in her school's musical, finally gets the strength to stand up to Karin, her hateful understudy, when Karin humiliates her in hopes of stealing the role through intimidation.
16) Uprising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Sadiq volume 11
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Kiran leaves her home in Punjab for a new start in Canada after a sexual assualt leaves her pregnant. But overstaying her visa and living undocumented brings its own perils for both her and her daughter, Sahaara. Sahaara would do anything to protect her mother. When she learns the truth about Kiran's past, she feels compelled to seek justice--even if it means challenging a powerful and dangerous man."--Book jacket