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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Feeling blocked after moving from Argentina to New Jersey, a sixteen-year-old poet finds herself torn between a cute American boy in her math class and a Greek student who understands the struggles she is facing in an ESL class.
Author
Series
The Red River of the north volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would never look back.
The promise of free land lures Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway, and after three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, they finally arrive at the docks of New York City. This new land promises a rich heritage for their children, and here they hope to build a good...
3) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they try to make a living by working in the Chicago stockyards.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Guatemalan-American high school senior Millie Vargas struggles to balance her family's needs with her own ambitions, especially after her mother's employer, a Senate candidate, uses Millie as a poster child for 'deserving' immigrants"--
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Vivi, a college student attempting to complete an internship, TJ, a nursing student, and �Angel, a patient with heart disease, all find their lives intersecting at a university hospital during one summer that could change their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Daniel, a Chinese-American teen, must grapple with his plans for the future, his feelings for his best friend Harry, and his discovery of a family secret that could shatter everything.
7) All my rage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one...
8) O pioneers!
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st Vintage classics ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequena has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But, none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter's best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
346 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Verónica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the author's experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education, and the inspiration of Latina authors.
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"--