Title: My Name Is Maria Isabel
Author: Ada, Alma Flor
ISBN: 0689315171
Call Number: j
Notes: Third-grader Maria Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the United States, wants badly to fit in at school. The teacher's writing assignment, "My Greatest Wish," gives her that opportunity.

Title: Going Home
Author: Bunting, Eve
ISBN: 0060262966
Call Number: jE
Notes: Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, their parents still consider Mexico their home.

Title: One Green Apple
Author: Bunting, Eve
Publisher: Clarion (2006)
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 9780618434770
Call Number: jE
Notes: While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apples she picks perfectly complements the other students' red apples.

Title: Vietnamese In America (In America Series)
Author: Coleman, Lori
ISBN: 082253919
Call Number: j973.0495 C677v
Notes: The In America series by Lerner Publications provides historical information about the many different groups who immigrated to America, including Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Irish, Chinese, Italians and more.

Title: I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Author: Diakite, Penda
Publisher: Scholastic (2006)
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 0439662265
Call Number: jE
Notes: While visiting her father's family in Mali, a young girl loses a tooth, places it under a calabash and receives a hen and a rooster from the African Tooth Fairy.

Title: Isla
Author: Dorros, Arturo
ISBN: 0525451498
Call Number: jE
Notes: A young girl and her grandmother take an imaginary journey to the Caribbean island where her mother grew up and where some of her family still lives.

Title: A House of Tailors
Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly
ISBN: 0385730667
Call Number: j
Notes: When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return as soon as she can. Then she survives a multitude of hardships lving with her uncle's family and she starts to think of Brooklyn as home.

Title: Say Hola, Sarah
Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly
ISBN: 0440410770
Call Number: j
Notes: Sarah is too embarrassed to speak Spanish in front of her friends at the Columbus Day party until Anna's cousin from Colombia explains her own secret fear.

Title: Bridge to America
Author: Glaser, Linda
ISBN: 0618563016
Call Number: j
Notes: 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 stirring of identity as an American boy.

Title: America, My New Home
Author: Gunning, Monica
ISBN: 1590780574
Call Number: j811 G957am
Notes: Jamaican-born poet Monica Gunning tell her immigrant's story with gentle humor, grace and a child's sense of wonder.