Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration
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El Viaje de Kalak (Kalak’s Journey)
$12.95 Add to cartWinner at the 2018 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. When home doesn’t shelter Kalak’s family, they decide to set off and find a new life elsewhere. Together, they will fight the odds to find the longe
- Author: Quintana Silva, MarÃa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 10 2022
- ISBN10: 8419464112
- Language: Spanish
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The Girl Who Slept Under The Moon
$13.78 Add to cartThe Girl Who Slept Under the Moon follows the story of Noor, who arrives in a new country and feels like she doesn’t belong in her new school.
To feel better, Noor takes comfort in the things that rema
- Author: Malherbe, Shereen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 46
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1912356554
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Stitched the Stars
$13.78 Add to cartNon-uniform day arrives at Noor’s school. Noor hasn’t ever been to school without her uniform before, and the clothes she loves to wear are different.
What will she wear? What will the other children s
- Author: Malherbe, Shereen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 46
- Publish Date: January 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1915025095
- Language: English
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Big Red Lollipop
$18.99 Add to cartRubina has been invited to her first birthday party, and her mother, Ami, insists that she bring her little sister along. Rubina is mortified, but she can’t convince Ami that you just don’t bring your… [more below]
- Author: Khan, Rukhsana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0670062871
- Language: English
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Tomas Y La Senora de la Biblioteca (Tomas and the Library Lady Spanish Edition) = Tomas & the Library Lady
$8.99 Read moreTom s es hijo de trabajadores migratorios. Cada verano, l y su familia viajan a Iowa, desde Tejas, donde pasan largos y dif ciles d as en el campo, durante la temporada de la cosecha de frutas y verd… [more below]
- Author: Mora, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 23 1997
- ISBN10: 0679841733
- Language: Spanish
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Refugee 87
$8.99 Read moreA young refugee crosses continents in this timely, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel of survival.
Shif has a happy life, unfamiliar with the horrors of his country’s regime. He is one of th… [more below]- Author: Fountain, Ele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0316423017
- Language: English
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Birds on Wishbone Street
$18.95 Add to cartA simple act of neighborly kindness and a bird that needs their aid helps former refugee Sami settle into his new community with new-found friend Moe
Moe’s neighbors on Wishbone Street come from all o
- Author: del Rizzo, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 177278219X
- Language: English
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Light for All
$17.99 Add to cartA lyrical and unifying picture book that “will inspire young readers” and “magnificently showcases the immigrant experience” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) in America from Newbery Honoree Margarita … [more below]
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1534457275
- Language: English
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Night on the Sand
$17.99 Read moreIn a tender tale of community and resiliency, two brothers who become refugees find hope in their bond with each other and through their connections with the people they encounter.
“We were not alone,”
- Author: Mayper, Monica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 132888418X
- Language: English
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Key Player (Front Desk #4)
$8.99 Add to cartMia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang!
Mia Tang is play to win!
The Women’s World Cup is coming to Southern California, and everyo
- Series: Front Desk
- Author: Yang, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1338859544
- Language: English
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Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold)
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family d… [more below]
- Author: Salazar, Aida
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1338343807
- Language: English
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Joy-Grace and the Dress Dilemma / Joy-Grace y el dilema del vestido
$11.99 Add to cartIn Joy-Grace and the Dress Dilemma, authors Joy and Tseganesh wanted to write a book about the challenges–and the beauty!–of having a multicultural identity. Joy-Grace is a fashionista, and this wee
- Author: Ugwu, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1950807398
- Language: Spanish
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The Promised Land: A Tale of a pair of twins
$24.00 Add to cartThe Promised Land details the current political and economic situation of author Jacques F. Felix’s native country, Haiti. It shows how the Haitian youth are trying to leave the country by any means n
- Author: Felix, Jacques F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: November 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1649133782
- Language: English
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The Turtle of Michigan
$19.99 Read moreThe stand-alone companion to National Book Award Finalist and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s The Turtle of Oman. The Turtle of Michigan is a deft and accessible novel that follows a young boy named A
- Author: Nye, Naomi Shihab
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0063014165
- Language: English
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Where Wildflowers Grow
$14.99 Add to cartA beautifully moving picture book that reminds us that wherever we move–across the sea or across the neighborhood–we can always keep growing . . . just like wildflowers.
After being uprooted from th- Author: Dinh, Hà
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0593578600
- Language: English
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The Night Diary
$18.99 Add to cartA 2019 NEWBERY HONOR BOOK
“A gripping, nuanced story of the human cost of conflict appropriate for both children and adults.”
–Kirkus, starred review In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The W- Author: Hiranandani, Veera
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0735228515
- Language: English
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My Name Is Sangoel
$18.99 Add to cartSangoel is a refugee. Leaving behind his homeland of Sudan, where his father died in the war, he has little to call his own other than his name, a Dinka name handed down proudly from his father and gr… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0802853072
- Language: English
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The Most Beautiful Thing I Have Ever Seen
$21.95 Read moreA little girl sees her mother’s fear when war comes to their home. Fear is replaced with hope when they board a huge, shiny airplane. When it lands, they are somewhere new, and slowly, it comes to fee
- Author: Umadat, Nadia Devi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1772603147
- Language: English
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La Tierra de Las Grullas (Land of the Cranes)
$8.99 Add to cartFrom the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family d… [more below]
- Author: Salazar, Aida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1338767542
- Language: Spanish
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I Am Both: A Vietnamese Refugee Story
$18.99 Add to cartA picture book inspired by the author’s family’s journey on the last flight out of Saigon, I Am Both is a compelling exploration of identity, immigration, and family.
We zip through the city listenin- Author: Greene, Kerisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250865026
- Language: English
