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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
164 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1908, eleven-year-old Innie joins the library club at a settlement house that serves immigrant families of Boston's North End, but when items and money disappear from the settlement house, Innie's past as a troublemaker puts her under suspicion.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
188 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin eagerly helps her cousin Ana, newly arrived from Russia, to adjust to life in New York City, but when their teacher says the two must sing together at a school assembly, Rebecca worries that her big moment will be ruined.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
229 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, young Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his immigrant parents invent the teddy bear, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the lives of children living under the Brooklyn Bridge.
10) The crossroads
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jaime, twelve, and Angela, fifteen, discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States, while news from home gets increasingly worse.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...