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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Through this authoritative account of the historical record and important new findings, Abramitzky and Boustan will help shape our thinking and policies about the fraught topic of immigration with findings such as: ·Where you come from doesn't matter. The children of immigrants from El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala today are as likely to be as successful as the children of immigrants from Great Britain and Norway 150 years ago. ·Children of immigrants...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the wake of 9/11, Shadi, a child of Muslim immigrants, tries to navigate her crumbling world of death, heartbreak, and bigotry in silence, until finally everything changes.
2003: the US has officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down....
Publisher
Green Card Voices
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from Upstate New York High Schools" is a collection of personal essays written by 29 authors from Twelve Corner Middle School, Bilingual Language and Literacy Academy, Lafayette High School, and Newcomer Academy, and residing in New York State. The book includes a study guide, and a glossary to help teachers use the book as an educational resource when teaching about immigration --
109) The marriage game
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Layla Santos is the child of first-generation immigrants from India. Her parents run a Michelin-starred Indian restaurant in San Francisco and are very traditional in their ways, including a firm belief in the benefit of arranged marriages. Her father, thinking he knows best, signs Layla up for IndianGirlMatch.com and sets up a series of dates without telling her.... Sam Mehta is the self-made CEO of a corporate consultancy specializing in downsizing....
110) Paper names
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first generation American and her own personal desires. Finally, there's...
112) Groundskeeping
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course. Here he meets Alma Hadžić, a writer in residence who seems to have everything that Owen lacks--a...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo/Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Una novela conmovedora sobre la fuerza femenina y la valentía para encontrar un nuevo camino. Esta es la historia de una familia a partir de la primera generación de mujeres sirias nacidas en México, desvelando sus costumbres, miedos, valentías, y cómo son vistas ante los ojos acechantes y aplastantes del patriarcado judío. Rosa Nissán (Oshinica) es la narradora y, desde su interior, nos desvela sus observaciones de las mujeres de su propia...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of parent-child memoirs from The Liar's Club to The Glass Castle, here is the haunting story of a daughter's quest to understand her father, to save him from his own demons and to save herself from following his self-destructive path. Marco Antonio was born in Mexico but as a teenager migrated with his large family north to California, where he met Jean's mother, a young Puerto Rican woman just out of med school. Marco was a self-taught...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After ten years of living in America, a young girl is happy with the new world in which she lives and doesn't understand why her parents yearn to return to their war-torn land of Kosova.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"In urban American school systems, the children of recent immigrants and low-income parents of color disproportionately suffer from overcrowded classrooms, lack of access to educational resources, and underqualified teachers. The challenges posed by these problems demand creative solutions that must often begin with parental intervention. But how can parents without college educations, American citizenship, English literacy skills, or economic stability...
Author
Publisher
Jocko Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The author recounts his life experiences, from his 1940s childhood as a son of Japanese immigrants in Chicago, Illinois to his 30-year US Army service that included tours in Korea and Vietnam, becoming the first Asian-American to command a US Army division."
Publisher
Distributed by Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
A stranger in a strange land, Bolivar De La Cruz has just crossed the border from Mexico in search of a better life. In contrast, restless, club-hopping second-generation immigrant Lola has the American Dream at her fingertips but feels like a stranger in her own life, forever caught between appeasing her old-world mother and following her heart. On the surface, despite their shared ethnic heritage, Bolivar and Lola have little in common. But when...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
