immigrants

In 1835, Ellie struggles to adjust to life on the Canadian frontier.

In 1835, Ellie must face her fears and protect her brother when Papa fails to return from a day's hunting.

A young Chinese girl and her parents emigrate to the United States and try their best to assimilate into their San Francisco neighborhood while anxiously awaiting the arrival of their green cards.

When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.

Contains three literature-based study units on immigration, examining the role of immigration in the U.S., exploring the challenges immigrants have encountered in America, and looking at the different immigrant groups. Includes activities, and an audiotape with songs, poems, stories, and Ellis Island interviews.

Journalist Gabriel Thompson recounts his time spent working alongside undocumented workers in lettuce fields, at a poultry plant, and in the kitchen of a restaurant, examining the sociocultural and economic difficulties and complexities experienced by his coworkers at each of the demanding and low-paying jobs.

The author relates his experiences speaking and traveling with an African refugee named Deo, who escaped genocide and earned his doctorate degree in medicine from Columbia University, to Burundi, where Deo built a hospital and reflected on the many deaths in the region.

Examines the daily lives of immigrants to the United States since 1965, providing an overview of the migration stories of people from various countries and continents, and discussing economics, family life and identity, community, society and culture, stereotypes and discrimination, and policy and politics.

Esther and Fanya, twin sisters in a Russian Jewish immigrant family living on New York's Lower East side in the early twentieth century, each find their own path in life from observing the city around them as they grow up.

Follows the journey of fifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti as she tries to find her place in the United States after living as a Gypsy in Russia, and has to overcome certain barriers in order to feel like she belongs in her new home.