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3) Little Bee
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
6) Game seven
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba who dreams of playing with the pros must choose between his country and his father who defected to the U.S."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her father in America.
After being separated from her sister and sold to a cruel goat farmer, Astri makes a daring escape. She quickly retrieves her little sister, and, armed with a troll treasure, a book of spells and curses, and a possibly...
10) Nory Ryan's song
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
11) Netherland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hans van den Broek finds himself alone in New York City after his wife and son return to London, and stumbles upon the subculture of cricket, builds a friendship with Chuck from Trinidad, and begins a new life in his adopted country.
13) Maggie's door
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.
14) Islandborn
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
16) The arrival
Author
Publisher
A. A. Levine
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.
17) Heaven is high
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Small-town lawyer Barbara Holloway sets off to Belize to help a professional football player prove his wife's true identity and protect her from Immigration Services, but what seems to be a simple case soon takes a dangerous turn that threatens to destroy everything Barbara has worked for.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On his way from Ireland to America to escape the potato famine, young Fergus carves a shillelagh from his favorite blackthorn tree, and each St. Patrick's Day for generations, his story is retold by one of his descendants.
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