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Theme: Immigrants
La Línea
Miguel’s life is just beginning. Or so he thinks. Fifteen-year-old Miguel leaves his rancho deep in Mexico to migrate to California across la línea, the border, in a debut novel of life-changing, cliff-hanging moments. But Miguel’s carefully laid plans change suddenly when his younger sister Elena stows away and follows him. Together, Miguel and Elena endure [...]
Descriptors: Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Realistic Fiction, United States of America Other Themes: California, illegal, Mexico 1 Comment
Behind The Mountains
It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. During a visit from her home in rural Haiti, Celiane Espérance and her mother are nearly killed. Looking at her country with new eyes, Celiane gains a fresh resolve to be reunited with her father in Brooklyn, New [...]
Descriptors: Americas, Haiti, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Nonfiction Other Themes: Diary, Emigration and immigration, Haitian Americans, New home, School 2 Comments
Landed
After leaving his home in southeastern China, twelve-year-old Sun is held and interrogated on Angel Island before being allowed to join his merchant father in San Francisco.
Descriptors: Asia, China, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8) Other Themes: Chinese Americans, San Francisco 1 Comment
Dream Time: New Stories By Sixteen Award-Winning Authors
A collection of sixteen short stories, produced by asking authors recognized or awarded by the Australian Book Council to write on the theme of ‘Dream Time.’
Descriptors: Australia, Fiction, Oceania, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Other Themes: Albanian Americans, Family life, Friendship, Refugees and exiles Comments closed
Breath Of The Dragon
A five-year-old Thai girl, Malili waits in vain for her mother–who has gone to America to make a new life–to send for her and finds solace in her passion for drawing and love for her grandmother.
Descriptors: Asia, Fiction, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Thailand Other Themes: Ghosts and spirits, World War I Comments closed
Princess Smartypants
Not wishing to marry any of her royal suitors, Princess Smartypants devises difficult tasks at which they all fail, until the multi-talented Prince Swashbuckle appears.
Descriptors: England (UK), Europe, Fiction, Primary (Gr. K-3) Other Themes: Jewish-Arab relations Comments closed
The Moon’s Lullaby
As night settles in, a baby’s yawn travels around the world, inducing sleepiness everywhere.
Descriptors: Fiction, Primary (Gr. K-3) Other Themes: Holocaust survivors, Jews in the United States Comments closed
The Normans
Describes the history, government, family life, religion, and other customs of the Normans.
The Silence In The Mountains
When his family leaves their war-torn country to come to live in America, a young boy has trouble adjusting, until his grandfather helps him find what he had missed most.
Descriptors: Asia, Fiction, Lebanon, Primary (Gr. K-3) Other Themes: Childhood, Judaism, Social life and customs Comments closed
Running On The Cracks