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41) Violent land
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
�2012
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
At the heart of this third volume of Larry McMurtry's Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the "Sin Killer" and mother to their young son, Monty, who, although Tasmin intends him to be an English gentleman like his grandfather, is at the moment living the childhood of a savage. By Sorrow's River continues the Berrybender party's trail across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe, where...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling...
47) Americanah
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ifemelu and Obinze, a couple in love, depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Ifemelu heads for America, where she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Against the wilds of sea and wood, a young immigrant woman settles into life outside Duluth in the 1890s, still shocked at finding herself alone in a new country, abandoned and adrift. In the early 1920s, her orphan son, now grown, falls in love with the one woman he shouldn't and uses his best skills to build them their own small ark to escape. But their pasts travel with them, threatening to capsize even their fragile hope. In this triumphant novel,...
49) Room to dream
Author
Series
Front desk volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While visiting family in China, Mia Tang witnesses some of the big changes the country is going through, which makes her think about the changes in her own life that need to be dealt with.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker, and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having heard about Thanksgiving in school, nine-year-old Rivka tries to convince her immigrant family and her rabbi that it is a holiday for all Americans, Jews and non-Jews alike.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Physical Desc
viii, 610 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1812, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner mark the return of Nathaniel's daughter Hannah, while her half-brother Daniel joins the militia and his twin, Lily, falls in love with a dark and dangerous stranger.
55) Let freedom ring
Author
Series
Shadow of liberty volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
338p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the opportunity arises, Shirley, the daughter of immigrants who live above their corner grocery store, turns some overlooked gefilte fish into a marketing strategy that changes the flavor of the neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares the author's journey from Somalia to the United States, including his early love of American music and movies, his survival under a radical Islamist group, and how he made his way to the United States using the annual visa lottery.
58) Pioneer girl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
59) Daughter of Rome
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A woman with a devastating secret. A man bent on proving his worth. A chance encounter that catapults them into the heart of history. When the daughter of a prominent Roman general meets a disinherited Jewish immigrant, neither one can dream of God's plan to transform them into the most influential couple of the early church. Nor can they anticipate the mountains that will threaten to bury them. Their courtship unwittingly shadowed by murder and...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the immigrant experience from the settling of the New World to the present day, what immigrants experienced when they arrived, and how they made the nation strong.