Immigration:
For Kids: Children Immigrating
The immigrant experience from a child's perspective.
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A House of Tailors by Giff, Patricia Reilly
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.
Reading Level: Ages 9 to 12
ISBN: 0385730667
Callnumber: j
Say Hola, Sarah by Giff, Patricia Reilly
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.
Reading Level: Ages 7 to 9
ISBN: 0440410770
Callnumber: j
Bridge to America by Glaser, Linda
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.
Reading Level: Ages 8 to 12
ISBN: 0618563016
Callnumber: j
The Trouble Begins by Himelblau, Linda
Notes: Du Nguyen is finally home, except he's never met his American family. He spent his early years with his grandmother in Vietnam. Now a fifth grader, Du struggles to adapt to his new home and deal with the trouble inside him.
Reading Level: Ages 8 to 12
ISBN: 0385732732
Callnumber: j
Hope in My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary, Book One (My America Series) by Lasky, Kathryn
Notes: When Sofia and her family arrive in Ellis Island after a difficult journey fro Italy, a twist of fate separates her from her parents, and sends her into quarantine. While in the hospital, she learns that she can overcome her hardships.
Reading Level: Ages 8 to 11
ISBN: 0439449626
Callnumber: j
Hannah's Journal: The Story of An Immigrant Girl by Moss, Marissa
Notes: Hannah convinces Mama and Papashka to leave their small European village, where they suffer persecution, and go to America with timid cousin Esther. They endure the long voyage, but will America really be what they dreamed of?
Reading Level: Ages 8 to 12
ISBN: 0152021558
Callnumber: j
Oranges on Golden Mountain by Partridge, Elizabeth
Notes: When hard times befall his family, Jo Lee is sent from China to San Francisco where he works with his fisherman uncle and dreams of being reunited with his mother and sister.
Reading Level: Ages 7 to 10
ISBN: 0525464530
Callnumber: j
My Diary From Here to There / Mi Diario De Aqui Hasta Alla by Perez, Amanda Irma
Notes: As Amanda and her family journey from Mexico to Los Angeles, where greater opportunities await, Amanda records her fears, hopes and dreams in her diary.
Reading Level: Ages 7 to 10
ISBN: 0892391758
Callnumber: j
Esperanza Rising by Ryan, Pam Munoz
Notes: When a sudden tragedy shatters Esperanza's sheltered world, she and her mother emigrate from Mexico to California to work in the fields and start a new life.
Reading Level: Ages 9 to 14
ISBN: 0439120411
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 2000
Pages: 262
Callnumber: j
Dragon's Gate by Yep, Laurence
Notes: When he accidently kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to American to join his father, an uncle and other Chinese immigrants working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.
Reading Level: Ages 9 to 14
ISBN: 0060229713
Callnumber: j