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Two white rabbits
by Jairo Buitrago
Traveling with her migrant worker father on the roof of a train known as The Beast, a little girl watches the passing scenery, from animals to soldiers, while making regular stops for her father to earn money as they move toward the U.S. border in search of a better life.
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Thao
by Thao Lam
Thao is tired of her name being mispronounced all the time and decides to call herself Jennifer
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Like a dandelion
by Huy Voun Lee
"Like feathery seeds, a young girl and her mother take flight, putting down roots in an adopted country. Soon they blossom in their new home, strong and beautiful among hundreds of others just like them"
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Wishes
by Muon Van
In a tale featuring artwork by an award-winning illustrator, a youngest member of a Vietnamese refugee family finds her perspectives on immigration, family and belonging profoundly changed by her relocation to a new home on the other side of the world. Illustrations.
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Maya's blanket
by Monica Brown
"When a little girl's cherished baby blanket becomes old and worn, it is made into a dress, and over the years it is made into even smaller and smaller items, eventually ending up as a bookmark and inspiring the creation of a book.
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The Name Jar
by Yangsook Choi
After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, she is anxious for her new classmates to like her, so to find a name they can more easily pronounce, they decide to help her by filling a glass jar with names for her to pick from.
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From north to south
by René Colato Laínez
When his mother is sent back to Mexico for not having the proper immigration papers, José and his father travel from San Diego, California, to visit her in Tijuana
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Mama's nightingale : a story of immigration and separation
by Edwidge Danticat
A little girl eases the pain of her separation from her mother, who is being held in an immigration detention center, by listening to her mother's readings of Haitian folktales, which inspire her to write her own story.
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My beautiful birds
by Suzanne Del Rizzo
Fleeing from a home destroyed in the Syrian Civil War, Sami worries about the pet pigeons he left behind and struggles to go through his days in a refugee camp, where he is consumed by thoughts of what he has lost before finding healing by caring for other birds in need of help.
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Islandborn
by Junot Díaz
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"
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The seeds of friendship
by Michael Foreman
Adam, an immigrant boy in a big city, is lonely until he see snow for the first time and starts to play with the neighborhood children, but when he starts school he gets some seeds and begins to plant them with help from his new friends
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When Jessie came across the sea
by Amy Hest
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
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Here I am
by Patti Kim
"Tells the story in pictures of a family newly immigrated to the United Sates and the challenges of starting a life in a new place"
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My Two Blankets
by Irena Kobald
A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket while wondering if a new blanket might help her take her first steps into her new culture.
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Mamá the alien : Mamá La Extraterrestre
by René Colato Laínez
"A young girl misunderstands the word alien on her mother's Resident Alien Card and let's her imagination run wild, coming to the conclusion that her mother is from outer space. Includes author's note and glossary"
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I'm New Here
by Anne Sibley O'Brien
Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.
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A different pond
by Bao Phi
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"
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Fiona's lace
by Patricia Polacco
An Irish family stays together with the help of Fiona's talent for making one-of-a-kind lace in this heartwarming, generational immigration story from the New York Times best-selling creator of The Keeping Quilt.
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The journey
by Francesca Sanna
In this beautiful new picture book, Francesca Sanna's interviews with refugee families in Europe become a searing parable of empathy and hope. Two young children and their mother must escape the dangers of war, but before them liesà a journey. Amidst border guards and nights in hiding, one family's determination and faith in one another carries them through a story of massive contemporary importance.
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Grandfather's journey
by Allen Say
In a special anniversary edition of his Caldecott-winning classic that includes a new introduction and downloadable audio, Allen Say offers a poignant account of a family's unique cross-cultural experience in America and Japan, in a story that warmly conveys his own love for the two countries, and the strong and constant desire to be in both places at once.
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Lost and found cat : the true story of Kunkush's incredible journey
by Doug Kuntz
A picture book account of the inspirational true story describes how an Iraqi refugee family was separated from their beloved feline companion while on a crowded boat crossing to Greece before a worldwide community helped the cat and his owners reunite.
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Where will I live?
by Rosemary A McCarney
A photographic essay examines the thousands of children who have been displaced by war or disasters, showing the struggle of refugees around the world.
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Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote : A Migrant's Tale
by Duncan Tonatiuh
An allegorical picture book tale inspired by the challenges of illegal immigration finds a young rabbit packing up favorite foods and embarking on a journey north in search of his father, only to encounter a hungry coyote who wants both the food and the rabbit for a meal. By the creator of Dear Primo.
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My name is Sangoel
by Karen Lynn Williams
As a refugee from Sudan to the United States, Sangoel is frustrated that no one can pronounce his name correctly until he finds a clever way to solve the problem.
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