immigrants

On their way to a May Day parade, twins Hue and Hoa spy a confused-looking duck and try to help it reach the pond, while neighbors from many countries offer help and greetings in different languages.

Nine-year-old Alejandria rallies her family and community to fight and save their neighborhood from rising rent prices and evictions.

After Estrella's father is deported because he is an illegal immigrant, her teacher at school invites her and the other students to meet around an old oak tree and share the things they wished their teacher knew about their life at home.

Text and illustrations look at refugees from a range of perspectives, discussing how it feels to be a refugee, how refugees travel to a new home, laws about refugees, and more. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic"--Provided by publisher.

An immigrant girl explains how she learned English by reading about Monarch butterflies, and how, troubled by their decline, she got her classmates and neighbors together to build a butterfly garden.

". . . [television journalist Jorge Ramos] . . . examine[s] what it means to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in . . . America [and] us[es] . . . research and statistics . . . [and] his own personal experience [to] show . . . the changing face of America while also trying to find an explanation for why he, and millions of others, still feel like strangers in [the United States]"--Amazon.

"Describes the author's childhood relocation from France to the U.S., where as a naturalized citizen he joined the military and served multiple tours in Afghanistan before he was wounded while protecting his patrol from a suicide bomber"--OCLC.

A young Lithuanian immigrant arrives in America filled with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity, but soon learns the truth of the workingman's lot at the turn of the century.

Nigerian Ifemelu leaves her country to study in America while the man she loves back home, Obinze, is denied entrance to America due to 9/11. After struggling in London, Obinze is sent back to Nigeria but becomes a wealthy man with family. Meanwhile Ifemelu explores racism in America and becomes a successful blogger about race. When Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, she reunites with Obinze, but now the couple faces new decisions about their future.