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"A boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a luminous meditation on ancestry and love. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for...
23) Leaving Ireland
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"Hoping for a better future, Gracelin O'Malley sets sail from her beloved Ireland, a journey that takes her to a world far different from anything she's ever known. After surviving the difficult voyage, she joins her brother Sean, already much changed by his exciting life in Manhattan. She takes a job in a saloon, learning firsthand the harsh reality of immigrant life and the horrors of the Irish tenement district." -- Back cover.
24) A worthy heart
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Courage to dream volume 2
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English
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Maggie Montgomery arrives in America from Ireland under the premise of visiting family, but really, she intends to stay in the Land of Opportunity, and soon she meets Adam, a black sheep whose past may come in the way of their love.
26) The Quiet Place
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
28) Wild girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
29) Willow Springs
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Crissa Engleson, a Swedish emigrant running from a cruel past but unaware that she is being pursued by a relentless bounty hunter, finds a new life in Willow Springs, a small mining community in Utah.
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"From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family's lexicon. Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving debut about coming-of-age in the middle of nowhere. With striking and tender insight, it seeks to give voice to those who have been denied their stories, and examines the way phrases and narratives are passed down through immigrant families-not...
31) Light for All
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text tell of travelers who have left their homelands to bring their talents, hopes, and determination to a land where Liberty's light shines for all.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Set in contemporary San Francisco and in the Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, the Bonesetter's daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, it's deepest wounds, it's most profound hopes. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief. Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars...
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"When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success...
37) The namesake
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." (The New York Times)
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
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"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...
39) Dreamers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
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English
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"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
40) One Green Apple
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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450L
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English
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While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks perfectly complements the other students' red apples.
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