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Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian community is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the beloved family members who were left behind and forges a new sense of identity shaped by friends and changing perspectives.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can Lety find her voice before it's too late?
Lety Muñoz's first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together. She loves volunteering at the animal shelter because the dogs and cats there don't care if she can't always find the right words. When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal profiles, Lety jumps at the chance.
But classmate Hunter also wants to write profiles-so he devises a competition to determine...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn't know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices! Luckily, the staff and other newcomers in her Welcome Home are happy to lend a hand and a sprinkle of sumac.
4) Refugee 87
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gifted student from a loving family loses everything on the day that soldiers arrive at his door, catapulting him into the horrors of refugee life.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lubna's best friend is a pebble. Pebble always listens to her stories. Pebble always smiles when she feels scared. But when a lost little boy arrives in the World of Tents, Lubna realizes that he needs Pebble even more than she does.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imagine being forced to move to a new planet where YOU are the alien! From the creator of the Tapper Twins, New York Times bestselling author Geoff Rodkey delivers a topical, sci-fi middle-grade novel that proves friendship and laughter can transcend even a galaxy of differences.
The first time I heard about Planet Choom, we'd been on Mars for almost a year. But life on the Mars station was grim, and since Earth was no longer an option...
The first time I heard about Planet Choom, we'd been on Mars for almost a year. But life on the Mars station was grim, and since Earth was no longer an option...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Karuna Riazi has a way with words. This story will find its way into your heart."—Tae Keller, Newbery Medalist for When You Trap a Tiger
"As timeless as it is timely, A Bit of Earth is a rare gift."—Laurel Snyder, author of National Book Award nominee Orphan Island
"Extraordinary, poetic, and inventive. A Bit of Earth is such a special book. Prickles and all, Maria Latif captured
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reeling from the treatment they endured in the internment camps of World War II America, a Japanese-American family renounces their American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation inflicted by the atomic bomb. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of Kira-Kira.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR YOUTH LITERATURE
Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal • Booklist • The Horn Book • New York Public Library
Welcome...
Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal • Booklist • The Horn Book • New York Public Library
Welcome...
10) The someone new
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The team behind the best-selling John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo present the story of a chipmunk who needs help adjusting to change when a new neighbor moves into the woods.
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Language
English
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Packed with humor and heart, this debut middle grade series follows a girl finding her place in a brand-new world of private school and frenemies when her family moves to Hong Kong.**
Holly-Mei Jones couldn’t be more excited about moving to Hong Kong for her mother’s job. Her new school is right on the beach and her family’s apartment is beyond beautiful. Everything is going to be perfect . . . right?
Maybe not. It feels like everywhere she...
12) One hug
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A Chinese American family exchanges sweet expressions of love with their newly arrived immigrant relatives, in a celebration of family and diversity that is told through joyful rhymes and colorful illustrations.
13) Freedom Soup
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The shake-shake of maracas vibrates down to my toes. Ti Gran's feet tap-tap to the rhythm. Every year, Haitians all over the world ring in the new year by eating a special soup, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make the soup-Freedom Soup-just like she was taught when she was a little girl. Together, they dance and clap as they prepare the holiday feast, and Ti Gran tells Belle about the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
It's been three years since Abuela's last visit, and Dulce revels in every tiny detail-from Abuela's maletas full of candies in crinkly wrappers and gifts from primos to the sweet, earthy smell of Peru that floats out of Abuela's room and down the hall. But Abuela's visit can't last forever, and all too soon she's packing her suitcases again. Then Dulce has an idea: maybe there are things she can gather for her cousins and send with Abuela to remind...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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Critically acclaimed author Shanthi Sekaran makes her middle grade debut with this timely and stunning novel in which a young boy and his friends must rescue his grandmother from a relocation camp after their country’s descent into xenophobia. Perfect for fans of The Night Diary and Front Desk.
Before his grandmother moved from India to the island of Mariposa, Muki Krishnan’s life was good. But now? He has to share his bedroom with Paati, his...
19) Parachute kids
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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**National Book Award Longlist Title**
**Asian/Pacific American Award Honor Book**
This funny, fast-paced, and heartrending story about three siblings living on their own as undocumented new immigrants is perfect for fans of New Kid and Front Desk.
A DREAM TRIP TO AMERICA TURNS INTO A NIGHTMARE!
Feng-Li can't wait to discover America with her family! But after an action-packed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Pura Belpré Award!
"We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness." —Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
Efrén Nava's Amá is his Superwoman—or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his
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