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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Grandfather's journey. Through compelling reminiscences of his grandfather's life in the United States and Japan, Allen Say poignantly recounts his family's journey to America.
The dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins. There was a time when few knew what dinosaurs looked like. This is the story of how Waterhouse Hawkins built the first life-sized dinosaur models and stunned the world with his awe-inspiring creations.
Snowflake Bentley. Ever since Willie...
4) You are life
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A lyrical poem that celebrates the wonderful and complex identity of children of immigrants and refugees, reminding them that who they are is always enough.
5) Dreamers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1994, twenty-five-year-old Yuyi Morales traveled from her home in Yelapa, Mexico, to the San Francisco Bay Area with her two-month-old son, Kelly, in order to secure permanent residency in this country. Her passage was not easy, and she spoke no English whatsoever. But due in large measure to help and guidance provided by area children's librarians, she learned English the same way her young son learned to read: through the picture books they shared...
Language
English
Description
A Russian Jewish immigrant girl, teased by her American classmates for her ethnic mannerisms, is given a class assignment to create a doll based on a Thanksgiving character. She creates a Russian immigrant doll, because, to her mother, Russian Jews are Pilgrims too, having come to America for religious freedom.
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
An American tail: The adventures of Fievel, a little boy mouse who journeys from Russia to America with his family to seek a new life free of cat persecution. During the stormy boat trip Fievel is lost at sea, finally washing up ashore in New York Harbor where he vows to find his family.
An American tail, Fievel goes west: The Mousekewitz family discovers that living in a mouse tenement does not offer the life they hoped for. Young Tanya dreams of...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The tale of a courageous little mouse named Fievel. Journeying by ship from Russia to turn-of-the-century America, Fievel is lost at sea during a ferocious storm. Washing ashore in New York Harbor, Fievel braves the perils and wonders of a strange new world in a thrilling quest to find his family.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
An American tail: Fievel goes west: A family of Emigre mice decide to move out to the west, unaware that they are falling into a trap perpetrated by a smooth talking cat.
An American tail: the treasure of Manhattan Island: In the historic melting pot of 19th century New York...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
American tail: A Russian mouse lands in New York in the 1880s, only to be separated from his family. He must now learn to live on the streets and evade the mean cats.
Balto: Part husky/part wolf, Balto doesn't know where he belongs. He's an outcast in Alaska, except to his true friends. Even though he's different, all of Balto's friends recognize what he still can't see himself; his noble spirit. One day, a serious diphtheria epidemic spreads among...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Drum dream girl: how one girl's courage changed music (2016) (7 min.): "In this Pura Belpre' Award-winning story, no one had ever questioned the rule that girls couldn't be drummers. But once one dream girl's music was finally heard, it was decided everybody should be free to drum and dream"--Container insert.
The Arabic quilt: an immigrant story (2020) (16 min.): "This beautiful story of diversity follows a young girl named Kanzi whose most treasured...
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