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Publisher
Distributed by Laguna Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Prepárese para dejarlo todo atrás desde Sur y Centro America viajando solo con un vago sentido de dirección y el eco de su familia aún en sus oídos. Prepárese para enfrentarse a la intimidación, corrupción y el peligro en México que eventualmente encontrará en 1,300 millas al norte al tratar de cruzar la frontera y llegar a Estados Unidos.
Follow one man as he leaves behind everything in Central America. With little sense of direction and...
2) Red midnight
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
"Describes the experiences of Mexican citizens who immigrate to America legally and illegally. The reader's choices reveal historical and modern details about where they settled, the jobs they found, and the difficulties they faced"--Provided by publisher.
4) Alien escape
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Spacemice volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015 ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Space mouse Geronimo Stiltonix must replace the batteries in his damaged spaceship by tracking down a rare element but he is wary of a group of mysterious aliens who offer their help.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Rev. format ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
10) Here I am
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story in pictures of a family newly immigrated to the United States and the challenges of starting a life in a new place"--Provided by publisher.
11) Angel Island
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the creation of the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco and the process immigrants went through when they arrived in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the massive influx if immigrants through Ellis Island from the late nineteenth century through World War II and the Cold War, covering the resulting ideological debates and new arrivals' encounter with corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from its desperate beginning in a shtetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Darcy Heart O'Hara, a young Irish girl who neglects her chores to observe the beauties of nature and everyday life, shares "family memories" with her homesick parents and siblings after the O'Haras are forced to emigrate to America in the 1840s.
Author
Publisher
Troll/BridgeWater Paperback
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Annie Moore cares for her two younger brothers on board the ship sailing from Ireland to America where she becomes the first immigrant processed through Ellis Island, January 1, 1892, her fifteenth birthday.
17) The memory coat
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, two cousins leave their Russian shtetl with the rest of their family to come to America, hopeful that they will all pass the dreaded inspection at Ellis Island.
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