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221) Threads and flames
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After recovering from typhus, thirteen-year-old Raisa leaves her Polish shtetl for America to join her older sister, and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.
222) Katerina's wish
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Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
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"Betita, de nueve años, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le contó la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los Ángeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en México. Los aztecas procedían de un lugar llamado Aztlán, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa 'tierra de las grullas', y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtitlán, la actual Ciudad de México. Cuenta una profesía que...
225) La encrucijada
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"Jaime Rivera pensó que después de cruzar México y entrar en Estados Unidos, lo peor había quedado atrás. No podía ser muy dificil comenzar en una escuela nueva. Pero lo es. Y no solamente porque casi no habla inglés. Mientras que su prima hermana Ángela se adaptó rapidamente e hizo nuevos amigos y se envolvió en actividades después de clases, Jaime siente que este lugar extraño no es su "hogar." Su hogar de verdad es con sus padres, con...
227) Landed
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After leaving his village in southeastern China, twelve-year-old Sun is held at Angel Island, San Francisco, before being released to join his father, a merchant living in the area. Includes historical notes.
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Lucía loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Papá. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Papá is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when "the weather turns cold and the monarcas return, our winged ancestors will guide me home." So while he spends the summer months harvesting produce on faraway farms, Lucía watches the skies for signs of the monarchs'--and her papá's--return.
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229) Dark water
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Living in a cottage on her uncle's southern California avocado ranch since her parent's messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker, and is trapped with him when wildfires approach his makeshift forest home.
230) Efrén dividido
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"La Madre de Efrén Nava es su Superwoman, a Soperwoman, llamada asi por los deliciosos sopes mexicanos que suele preparar. Su amá y su apá trabajan duro todo el día para mantener a la familia, asegurándose de que Efrén y sus hermanos menores, Max y Mía, se sientan seguros y queridos. Pero Efrén se preocupa por sus padres. Aunque nació en Estados Unidos, sus padres son indocumentados. Su peor pesadilla se vuelve realidad cuando su amá no...
233) La forma de un hogar
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"¡Es el primer d̕a de clases de Rashin en Estados Unidos! Todo tiene diferentes formas de lo que est̀ acostumbrada, desde las comidas en su desayuno hasta las letras en sus libros ¡Y las familias de sus compąeros vienen de todos los rincones del mundo! La nueva maestra le pide a cada estudiante que se imagine la forma de su hogar en un mapa. Rashin sabe qǔ dir̀ de inmediato ¡Ir̀n tiene forma de gato! ¿Qǔ ir̀n a decir los otros nįos? ¿Y...
234) No somos de aquí
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"La travesía llena de peligros, resiliencia, dolor y esperanza de tres adolescentes guatemaltecos que cruzan la frontera entre México y Estado Unidos. En este impresionante retrato de tres vidas injustamente destrozadas, basado en hechos reales, Jenny Torres Sanchez resalta el sacrificio de los migrantes en la frontera sur a través de una narración vívida y conmovedora."--
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And...
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Yoon, a Korean American, is excited to hear about Santa Claus and Christmas at her school, but her family tells her that such things are not part of their Korean tradition. In My Name Is Yoon, Yoon's parents encouraged her to write her name in English instead of Korean. Now it's Yoon's turn to teach her parents about something she's learned in America. When Yoon's teacher lends her a book about Santa Claus, Yoon can't wait to show it to her parents....
236) Life, after
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When poverty forces her family to leave their home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dani has a hard time adjusting to life in New York City, where everything is different except her father's anger, but an unlikely bond she forms with a wealthy, spoiled girl at school helps heal both of their families.
237) Our American dream
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"Immigrants come from countries far, to dream their dreams beneath American stars. Let's see who's here in this great place, a land of diversity : the United States!"--back cover.
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"Joy-Grace is a fashionista, and this week is her school's culture day. She wants to bring in a garment to reflect her background, but there's only one problem: her family is from Nigeria, Jamaica, AND Ethiopia! Will Joy-Grace be able to find the perfect dress to celebrate all of who she is in time for culture day?"--Publisher's website.
239) Tell us we're home
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Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.