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By Tan, Amyc2001., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Call No: FIC TAN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
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c2006., 5-8, Clarion Books Call No: Y PAT Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Rosa and thirteen-year-old Jake form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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c2003., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC MCM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Berrybender narratives Volume: bk. 3Summary Note: Continues the saga of the Berrybender family--rich, aristocratic, and English--as they travel across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe where they plan to spend the winter. Along the way they meet up with characters from the West including Kit Carson, the famous scout, and LePartezon, the fearsome Sioux war chief.
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c2000., 5-8, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
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[2018]., 1.8; K-3, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: PB WOO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
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By Nix, David[2022]., Adults, Sourcebooks Casablanca Call No: AW NIX Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Jake Paynter Series Volume: #3.Summary Note: "Jake Paynter cheated death, but now there's hell to pay. After escaping the hangman's noose, Jake is now forced to lie low while every lawman, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi guns for his head. When he receives word that miners at South Pass City are getting brutally murdered, he fears for his immigrant friends from the Oregon Trail. Against his better judgment, Paynter travels to the mining fields to bring the culprit to justice. Hiding in an abandoned mine by day and sleuthing at night, Jake begins to unravel the mystery of the deaths, drawing the hushed admiration of frightened families who begin looking to him for salvation. However, he faces more than a mysterious killer. His nemesis, Lucien Ashley, has hired a Pinkerton detective and a cutthroat gang from Philadelphia to capture or kill him. As adversarial forces close in, Jake must decide what he is willing to sacrifice. To run might preserve his life. To stay and fight for his friends might save his soul. For what a man fights for spells the difference between honor and dishonor, between duty and disgrace, between valor and simple violence."--
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-- VOX A different pond.2019., 2-3; K-4, 000729., [Library Ideas, LLC] Call No: VOX PHI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vox books.Summary Note: As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. A successful catch meant a fed family. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam.
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c2004., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC MCM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Berrybender narratives Volume: bk. 4Summary Note: Englishman Lord Berrybender's excursion into the American frontier lands him in the custody of Mexican authorities who decide to move the group across the desert to Vera Cruz, while Berrybender's oldest daughter Tasmin, having finally made it to civilization in New Orleans, tries to decide whether she wants her husband, mountainman Jim Snow, to be part of her future.
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[2018]., Adults, Delacorte Press Call No: FIC STE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success in the diamond business, invested in real estate in New York, and shown his son, Max, that America is truly the land of opportunity. Max is a rising star, a graduate of Harvard with friends among the wealthiest, most ambitious families in the world. And while his parents were thrown together by chance, Max chooses a perfect bride to start the perfect American family"--
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-- Inside out and back againBy Lai, Thanhhac2011., Ages 3-6, Scholastic Call No: G LAI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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2004, c2003., Adult, Houghton Mifflin Call No: FIC LAH Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
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c2003., Adults, Zondervan Call No: FIC HAT Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Series Title: Coming to America Volume: bk. 4
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By Kent, Peter1997., Ages 3-6, Millbrook Press Call No: PB KEN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1849 the impoverished Hornik family decides to leave Bohemia and emigrate to California in search of gold.
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2016., 8 to 12, Scholastic Press Call No: G VAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
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By Kwok, Jean[2019]., Adults, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC KWO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women--two sisters and their mother--in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-- and vanishes. Amy is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie, who was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place. Amy flies to the last place Sylvie was seen, retracing her sister's movements. It seems Sylvie kept painful secrets that reveal more about Amy's family than she ever could have imagined.-- Adapted from dust jacket.
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By See, Lisac2009., Adult, Random House Call No: FIC SEE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sisters Pearl and May Chin are forced into marriages to Chinese men living in America after their father gambles away his wealth; but life in American proves more difficult than they expected.
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1997., 5-8, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: During the potato famine, young Mary Driscoll leaves her Ireland home for Lowell, Massachusetts, where deplorable working conditions and a false accusation of murder force her to rally more courage than she thought she had.
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1998., Ages 4-8, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: PB YEZ Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A girl from Ireland and a boy from Poland overcome the prejudices held by the residents of the small American town to which they have emigrated.
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c1996., Adult, Bethany House Publishers Call No: FIC SNE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Red River of the north Volume: 1Summary Note: Ingeborg, her husband Roald, and their son immigrate to America with high hopes in 1880. When New York doesn't measure up to their expectations, they continue westward until reaching the Dakota territory. The family must struggle to achieve their dream.
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2012., Adult, WaterBrook Press Call No: FIC KIR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A fictionalized account of the life Hulda Klager, a German immigrant and farm wife with only an eighth-grade education and a burning desire to create something beautiful, who turns her hobby into a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with her family and community.