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Author
Language
English
Description
"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers...
2) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Author
Publisher
Tolteca Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Experience a young child's identity quest to understand the difference between the Blue of the U.S. flag and the Green of the Mexican flag. Many children across the nation live in homes where their parents' immigrant status is in flux and their world is filled with doubts and fears. This book reveals the resiliency and the beauty of a bicultural life and a child coming to terms with their rich cultural identity. It focuses on the Mexican immigrant...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet, and fall for each other, over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love?
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Xochitl and her family, newly arrived in San Francisco from El Salvador, create a beautiful plant nursery in place of the garbage heap behind their apartment, and celebrate with their friends and neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Una ni�na visita a su bisabuelo y elige una caja de puros que atesora en su interior un mont�on de cajas de f�osfotos. Dentro de cada caja hay un recuerdo: un hueso de aceituna, una chapa de botella-- Todas estas cosas nos narran el viaje de su bisabuelo desde Italia y sus primeros a�nos en Am�erica"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Xochitl and her family, newly arrived in San Francisco from El Salvador, create a beautiful plant nursery in place of the garbage heap behind their apartment, and celebrate with their friends and neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
When his mother is sent back to Mexico for not having the proper immigration papers, José and his father travel from San Diego, California, to visit her in Tijuana.
Cuando su madre es enviada de vuelta a México por no tener los documentos adecuados de inmigración, José y su padre van desde San Diego, California, a visitarla en Tijuana.
10) The crossroads
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jaime, twelve, and Angela, fifteen, discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States, while news from home gets increasingly worse.
Publisher
Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Este libro, una historia de niños contada por niños, no fue fácil de contar o escuchar. Pero no es solo una historia sobre la crueldad y la negligencia de los adultos, sino que a fin de cuentas, es también la historia de la fuerza, valentía y esperancza de los niños.
In Spanish and in English, a first-person account of children's experiences in detention at the southern U.S. border. Every day, children in migration are detained at the US-Mexico...
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