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1) Islandborn
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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"--
2) Lola
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Todos los niños de la escuela de Lola venían de otra parte. Era una escuela de lugares lejanos. Así que cuando la maestra de Lola pide a los estudiantes que hagan un dibujo del lugar de donde emigraron sus familias, todos los niños se entusiasman. Todos, menos Lola. Ella no recuerda la Isla: se fue cuando era apenas un bebé. Pero con la ayuda de su familia, de sus amigos y de sus recuerdos --felices, maravillosos, tristes, aterradores--...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Still sad and frightened after living in Poland through World War I and the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Devorah Lehrman, her younger sister, and other Jewish orphans travel with Isaac Ochberg to South Africa and make a new start.
Author
Publisher
StarBerry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When war threatens their home, Idriss and his mother must flee. He clutches his lucky charm--a single marble--throughout their journey, walking over hazardous terrain, crawling under barbed wire, and sailing on a fragile little boat. Will the marble's luck help them avoid capture and bring them to the safety of a new world? A heartfelt tale exploring the perilous path refugees often walk to find a new home and the hope it takes to get them there."--Publisher's...
Author
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"...This guide spotlights dozens of award-winning titles that primarily feature a first- or second-generation immigrant child or teen as a narrator or main character. A valuable tool for teaching, collection development, and readers's; advisory, in this book ALA Carnegie-Whitney Grant-recipient Khailova identifies both fiction and non-fiction titles published in the United States and Canada between 1990 and 2015 that focus on the twentieth or twenty-first...
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