Theme: illegal immigrant

Ask Me No Questions

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Nadira and her family are illegal aliens, fleeing to the Canadian border — running from the country they thought was their home. For years since emigrating from Bangladesh, they have lived on expired visas in New York City, hoping they could someday realize their dream of becoming legal citizens of the United States. But after [...]

Descriptors: Bangladesh, Realistic Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , » 1 Comment

After the War

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

“Didn’t the gas ovens finish you all off?” is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go. Members of the underground organization [...]

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Israel, Palestine, Poland, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment