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1) Americanah
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English
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Coming to America: The Immigrant Experience
Know Your Neighbor: Cultivating Communities of Compassion
Staff Recommendations
Know Your Neighbor: Cultivating Communities of Compassion
Staff Recommendations
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"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"-- Provided by publisher.
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English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for ages 8 - 12
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for ages 8 - 12
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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.
4) The jungle
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Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, this book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including...
5) Bird summons
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English
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"When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when she's contacted by her first love back in Egypt; Moni...
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In this stunning debut novel, a young woman tells the story behind two elderly sisters' estrangement, unraveling family secrets stretching back a century and across the Atlantic to early 20th century ItalyFor Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents--moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's...
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2014.
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English
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Coming to America: The Immigrant Experience
Hispanic Authors
Hispanic Heritage Month - Adults
Read 'Em and Weep
Hispanic Authors
Hispanic Heritage Month - Adults
Read 'Em and Weep
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Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.
9) I'm new here
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English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Children
Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage - More Children
Back to School, More Titles - Children
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage - More Children
Back to School, More Titles - Children
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Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.
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In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather's home when he discovers a mysterious manuscript written by none other than Adana Moreau. With the help of his friend Javier,...
11) I am golden
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This moving ode to the immigrant experience, as well as a manifesto of self-love for Chinese American children, is a jubilant celebration of accepting who you are.
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English
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A young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the U.S. border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn't know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn...
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Sadiq volume 3
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English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Children
Immigrant Heritage Month - Children
Muslim Heritage - Children
National Hobby Month - Children
Immigrant Heritage Month - Children
Muslim Heritage - Children
National Hobby Month - Children
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Even though it is summer Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has a injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well.
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Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, vanishes. Terrified yet determined, Amy, the sheltered baby of the family, retraces her movements, but instead of simple answers, she discovers something much more valuable: the truth.
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Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family's opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho's...
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Sadiq volume 4
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English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Children
Immigrant Heritage Month - Children
Muslim Heritage - Children
National Hobby Month - Children
Immigrant Heritage Month - Children
Muslim Heritage - Children
National Hobby Month - Children
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Sadiq's third grade class decides that they want a classroom pet, and their teacher, Ms. Battersby, is okay with the idea, so the students form a club to decide what kind of pet to get, and to research how to take care of it.
17) Front desk
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Front desk volume 1
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English
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4th Grade Rocks
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
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Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
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Petra Luna volume 1
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Texas Bluebonnet List 2022-23
Women's History Month - More Titles for Tweens
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Texas Bluebonnet List 2022-23
Women's History Month - More Titles for Tweens
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"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.
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"The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, whose affair leaves one emblazoned with her sin and the other distraught with hidden guilt; their daughter Pearl, born into ostracism; and Roger Chillingworth, driven...
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