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Coming to America The Story of Immigration — Betsy Maestro

Coming to America The Story of Immigration

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Cajas de cartón relatos de la vida peregrina de un niño campesino — Francisco Jiménez

Cajas de cartón relatos de la vida peregrina de un niño campesino

Francisco Jiménez

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy — Albert Marrin

Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Green Card Youth Voices – Immigration Stories from a St. Paul High School — Rachel Lauren Mueller

Green Card Youth Voices – Immigration Stories from a St. Paul High School

Rachel Lauren Mueller

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Rani Patel in Full Effect — Sonia Patel

Rani Patel in Full Effect

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Escaping to America A True Story — Rosalyn Schanzer

Escaping to America A True Story

Rosalyn Schanzer

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Nacer Bailando (Dancing Home) — Alma Flor Ada

Nacer Bailando (Dancing Home)

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Children of Willesden Lane A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II (Young Readers Edition) — Mona Golabek

The Children of Willesden Lane A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II (Young Readers Edition)

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Anna’s Prayer The True Story of an Immigrant Girl — Karl Beckstrand

Anna’s Prayer The True Story of an Immigrant Girl

Karl Beckstrand

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Flight for Freedom The Wetzel Family’s Daring Escape from East Germany — Kristen Fulton

Flight for Freedom The Wetzel Family’s Daring Escape from East Germany

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Parachute Kids — Betty C. Tang

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Cast Away Poems for Our Time — Naomi Shihab Nye

Cast Away Poems for Our Time

Naomi Shihab Nye

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Coming to America A Muslim Family’s Story — Bernard Wolf

Coming to America A Muslim Family’s Story

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Dear America: Young Readers’ Edition The Story of an Undocumented Citizen — Jose Antonio Vargas

Dear America: Young Readers’ Edition The Story of an Undocumented Citizen

Jose Antonio Vargas

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Ellis Island — Elizabeth Carney

Elizabeth Carney

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea (Young Readers’ Edition) The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel: One Teen Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival — Melissa Fleming

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea (Young Readers’ Edition) The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel: One Teen Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Melissa Fleming

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

I Belong — Stephen Haff

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Other Words for Home — Jasmine Warga

Other Words for Home

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Activists Assemble: We Are All Equal! — Shannon Weber

Activists Assemble: We Are All Equal!

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes: the Story of Architect I. M. Pei — Julie Leung

Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes: the Story of Architect I. M. Pei

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Chinese Immigrants in America An Interactive History Adventure — Kelley Hunsicker

Chinese Immigrants in America An Interactive History Adventure

Kelley Hunsicker

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Boy, Everywhere — A. M. Dassu

Boy, Everywhere

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

What Were the Roaring Twenties? — Michele Mortlock

What Were the Roaring Twenties?

Michele Mortlock

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

Tomatoes in My Lunchbox — Costantia Manoli

Tomatoes in My Lunchbox

Costantia Manoli

Themes: Emigration & Immigration • Social Topics • Juvenile Nonfiction

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