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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Maya moves to a different country, she feels lonely and lost. Everything-and everyone-seems so unfamiliar here, and she wonders if she will ever find a way to fit in. Longing for her home, she holds tightly to the special seeds her grandmother gave her, afraid to plant them. Can she take the risk that they-and she-might grow and bloom in this new place?
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
Historical Fiction - MID
Jewish Heritage Month - Juvenile/Middle Grade
Womens History Month - MID
Historical Fiction - MID
Jewish Heritage Month - Juvenile/Middle Grade
Womens History Month - MID
Description
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
30) Pie in the Sky
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
31) Hanukkah hamster
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
After finding a hamster that has been left behind in his taxi, a lonely immigrant cab driver celebrates Hanukkah with the little creature, while waiting to learn if the owner will return.
32) Last of the name
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
In 1863, twelve-year-old Danny and his older sister Kathleen arrive in New York City to start a new life, but they soon find themselves navigating through the same prejudices and struggles they experienced in Ireland.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael López's dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders...
34) Rosa's song
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment house filled with other newly arrived kids"--
36) Brooklyn Bridge
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
39) Light for all
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she used to eat.
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