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82) Tiger daughter
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[2023]
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English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Día Booklist (Grades 6-8) 2024
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
Women's History - Tweens
Día Booklist (Grades 6-8) 2024
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
Women's History - Tweens
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"Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the smartest boy at school despite struggling with his English...
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Twelve-year-old Ariana, a tomboy, and her ladylike cousin Laila, recently arrived from Afghanistan, do not get along but they pull together when a rival Afghani grocery store opens, rekindling an old family feud and threatening their family's livelihood.
85) Like a dandelion
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Like feathery seeds, a young girl and her mother take flight, putting down roots in an adopted country. Soon they blossom in their new home, strong and beautiful among hundreds of others just like them."--Provided by publisher.
86) Rosa's song
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment house filled with other newly arrived kids"--
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English
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When his family moves from a small Mexican village to North Carolina, Eduardo asks how soon he will feel at home, and slowly his Tio Miguel's seemingly impossible replies come true until, at last, he can put out the Nativity scene he carved with his grandfather.
90) Wild girl
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
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English
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Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she used to eat.
92) Boston Jacky: being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, taking care of business
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Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 11
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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The irrepressible Jacky Faber, recently arrived in Boston, finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and local residents angry at the arrival of hundreds of Irish immigrants on a ship owned by Faber Shipping Worldwide.
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English
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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
Bullying Prevention Month 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.
97) The quiet place
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
Author
Series
Sadiq volume 5
Language
English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Children
Black History Month - Children
DeSTEMber - Children
Immigrant Heritage Month - Children
Black History Month - Children
DeSTEMber - Children
Immigrant Heritage Month - Children
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"A young Somali American and his classmates design a model city to withstand floods, using river walls, floodgates, gutters, and rain gardens." --
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English
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Coming to America: The Immigrant Experience
Know Your Neighbor: Cultivating Communities of Compassion
Know Your Neighbor: Cultivating Communities of Compassion
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At the intersection of "Americanah" and "The Help" comes a riveting debut novel about two marriages - one immigrant and working class, the other from the top 1% - both chasing their version of the American Dream. In the fall of 2007, Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Their situation only improves when Jende's son Neni is hired as household help....
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