Immigration:
For Kids: Children Immigrating
The immigrant experience from a child's perspective.
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I Lost My Tooth in Africa by Diakite, Penda
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.
Reading Level: Ages 5 to 9
ISBN: 0439662265
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2006
Callnumber: jE
The King of Mulberry Street by Napoli, Donna Jo
Notes: In 1892, Dom, a nine-year-old stowaway from Naples, Italy, arrives in New York and must learn to survive the perils of street life in the big city.
Reading Level: Ages 8 to 12
ISBN: 0385746539
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Published: 2005
Callnumber: j
Going Home by Bunting, Eve
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.
Reading Level: Ages 4 to 8
ISBN: 0060262966
Callnumber: jE
One Green Apple by Bunting, Eve
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.
Reading Level: Ages 5 to 9
ISBN: 9780618434770
Publisher: Clarion
Published: 2006
Callnumber: jE
Isla by Dorros, Arturo
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.
Reading Level: Ages 5 to 7
ISBN: 0525451498
Callnumber: jE
Faraway by Kurtz, Jane
Notes: As her father prepares for a trip back to his childhood home in Ethiopia, Desta begins to worry. Where does her father truly belong--in the village of his youth or here in American with her?
Reading Level: Ages 5 to 8
ISBN: 0152000364
Callnumber: jE
I Hate English! by Levine, Ellen
Notes: When her family moves to New York from Hong Kong, Mei Mei finds it difficult to adjust to school and learn the alien sounds of English.
Reading Level: Ages 5 to 7
ISBN: 0590423045
Callnumber: jE
The Rainbow Tulip by Mora, Pat
Notes: A Mexican-American first-grader experiences the difficulties and pleasures of being different when she wears a tulip costume with all the colors of the rainbow for the school May Day parade.
Reading Level: Ages 4 to 8
ISBN: 0670872911
Callnumber: jE
My Name Is Yoon by Recorvitis, Helen
Notes: Disliking her name in English, Korean-born Yoon, or "shining wisdom," refers to herself as "cat," "bird" and "cupcake" as a way to feel more comfortable in her new school and new country.
Reading Level: Ages 4 to 8
ISBN: 0374351147
Callnumber: jE
My Name Is Maria Isabel by Ada, Alma Flor
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.
Reading Level: Ages 7 to 10
ISBN: 0689315171
Callnumber: j