immigrants

"A young Somali American and his classmates design a model city to withstand floods, using river walls, floodgates, gutters, and rain gardens"--Provided by publisher.

"Immigrants come from countries far, to dream their dreams beneath American stars. Let's see who's here in this great place, a land of diversity: the United States!"--Back cover.

"A collection of personal essays written by twenty-four students coming from fifteen different countries, and five coming from Puerto Rico."--Provided by publisher.

A boy who enjoys music and fun at his grandparents' homes ends the quiet in his own by persuading his grandfathers, who immigrated from different countries, to get out their accordions and play. Includes author's note about his own immigrant grandparents.

Readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of immigration through Ellis Island.

"This volume provides an authoritative, evenhanded overview of the Trump administration's family separation and child detention policies at the U.S.-Mexico border--and the impact of those policies and actions on children, their parents, border security, and American politics"--Provided by publisher.

"When Way?tu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally, a rebel soldier smuggles them across the border to Sierra Leone, reuniting the family and setting them off on yet another journey, this time to the United States"--Publisher's description.

"Thanks to a declining birth rate, upticks in immigration, and evolving gender roles, America looks much different from the way it did 100, 50, or even 25 years ago. Aging baby boomers are putting stress on the health care system. Young people have different values and priorities from those of previous generations. Unequal distribution of wealth has created a greater economic divide than ever before. How will America's shifting demographics affect the country's future? Through diverse viewpoints, this . . . volume explores the many factors that contribute to what it means to be an American and how that might change in this century"--Provided by publisher.

"On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China - to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya's memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya's own sense of displacement."--Provided by publisher.

"[Kao Kalia Yang presents a] memoir of her family's harrowing escape from war in Laos ... a troubling portrait of the consequences of U.S. interventions in Southeast Asia; and a firsthand account of the little-seen exodus of the Hmong people, first to refugee camps in Thailand and then, for many, to new homes in Minnesota"--Back cover.