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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"This book explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups evolved throughout U.S. history, particularly between 1800 and 1965. The book concludes with a summary of events up to contemporary times, as immigration again becomes a hot-button issue."--Provided by publisher.
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English
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"Urgently required reading." -People
"Deeply affecting... Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative." -The New Yorker
"Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria...and her book is ultimately a story of hope." -Newsweek
The stunning story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit.
Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight, just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses...
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English
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In this timely and emotionally powerful novel, award-winning author Micheline A. Marcom recounts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan-American college student, a "dreamer," who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California.
Emilio believes he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to ensure it. And his life seems relatively normal until he turns sixteen. Like...
9) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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A New York Times bestseller!
JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world ...
ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America ...
MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and...
13) My America
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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From author and illustrator Karen Katz, My America is a picture book celebration of immigration to the United States told through the experiences of children who have come from around the world.
Children come to live in America from many different countries, and for many different reasons...
In this beautiful celebration of immigration, children from around the world tell their stories, sharing their love of where they're from and where they live...
Author
Publisher
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
This volume brings together the first fifteen volumes of the Great Migration Newsletter, spanning the years 1990 through 2006. Now the researcher can find in one place all the Newsletter articles that have been published in New England Historic Genealogical Society's Great Migration Study Project.