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Arab American Book Award - Children / Young Adult
Arab American Heritage Month - Tweens
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Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.
42) The memory coat
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1999.
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English
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In the early 1900s, two cousins leave their Russian shtetl with the rest of their family to come to America, hopeful that they will all pass the dreaded inspection at Ellis Island.
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4th Grade Rocks
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
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Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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"When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila -- the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations -- hasn't changed. A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the backdrop of Iran's rich, yet tragic, history."--
46) Wishes
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"In this spare, poetic picture book based on author Muon Van's family history and told through a series of wishes, a family packs up everything they own and embarks on a perilous oceanic voyage toward a better life"--
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"Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: Should they board a container ship bound for America, or Great Britain? Alexander leaves that choice to...
49) Ellis Island
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2011.
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English
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"In 1920s New York, a young Irish woman must choose between her new life and her husband back home in Ireland"--
53) Silent movie
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[2003]
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English
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In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie, in a picture book that evokes an actual silent movie.
55) The grief keeper
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[2019]
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English
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After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.
58) My shoes and I
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[2010]
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As Mario and his Papa travel from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with Mama, Mario's new shoes help to distract him from the long, difficult journey.
59) Just like home
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[1999]
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Español
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A young girl's first sights and experiences in the United States are sometimes familiar "just like home."
60) Hope in my heart
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2003.
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English
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After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
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