Jenny is discouraged when her second grade pen pal turns out to be a new student from Saudi Arabia who does not speak English very well, but as she works with her they slowly become friends.
Explains what immigration is, who may immigrate to the United States, what the process of immigration is, and how immigrants get settled in their new nation.
Describes the United States as a nation of immigrants and the reasons why people came to America, examining how the early immigrants, from the Dutch to the Africans, settled and adapted to their new home.
Describes the building of the Ellis Island Immigration Center and the process immigrants went through when they arrived in the United States and discusses why the center closed.
An all-American girl with Chinese ancestors and a new immigrant from China find little in common when they meet in their fourth grade classroom, but they are both missing their best friends and soon discover other connections.
In Cincinnati, Ohio, in the summer of 1952, eight-year-old Peti gives up his room to his Hungarian relatives, including a twelve-year-old cousin who bullies him, and worries about his grandfather who cannot escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
Yoon, a young girl who has come to live in America with her parents, is excited to learn about Santa Claus at school, but when her parents tell her they are not a Christmas family, she must find a way to change their minds.
