emigration and immigration

A young girl's first sights and experiences in the United States are sometimes familiar "just like home.".

The Sabbath candlesticks given to them by their grandmother when they leave Russia help two sisters make it safely to join their father in New York.

Gregor decides to take his special blanket when his family leaves Russia to live in America, but he worries about his choice all during the journey.

As ten-year-old Umberto and his father are on their way from Italy to America in 1892, the father is thrown into the ship's brig and Umberto must fend for himself.

Stories of recent Mexican, Venezuelan, Kazakh, Chinese, Romanian, Palestinian, Swedish, Korean, Haitian, and Cambodian immigrants reveal what it is like to face prejudice, language barriers, and homesickness along with common teenage feelings and needs.

Presents an introduction to immigration, in simple text with illustrations, providing information on the different causes of immigration, its history, and how it effects global population.

After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.

A look at the lives of Russian, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Swedish, and Irish immigrants who passed through Ellis Island around the turn of the twentieth century.

Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to interwine on board ship and in the new world.

Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.