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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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"Ha and her family have worked hard to make a life for themselves in the US, but it hasn't come easy. Ha has only just started to feel settled when Mother decides that the family will move to Texas for a new job."--Publisher's description.
2) Rosa's song
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"A young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment house filled with other newly arrived kids"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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A stunning novel about the transformative power of love, perfect for fans of 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher.
Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness.
There's only one problem: she's not sure she has the...
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"New country, new school, new friends. A lot can happen in a single year. But one thing's for certain: Maribel won't forget her Papa, even when he's 8,000 miles away in the Philippines. After all, Papa is all around. He is the memory of feeding koi fish in their pond every morning. He is the constellation map as Maribel dreams of showing him her new world. He is the packages and letters sent back and forth. He is everywhere except the place he's wanted...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.
10) Nora's chicks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Arriving on the American prairie in the hope of making a new home, Nora, a little girl from Russia, struggles with loneliness until Papa brings her a dozen chicks and two geese who follow Nora everywhere she goes.
12) A different pond
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"As a young boy, Bao Phi 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. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
13) Girl mans up
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
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"In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends"--
15) The quiet place
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
18) I hate borsch!
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A Ukrainian girl finds a new way to appreciate her home country's national dish after she immigrates to the United States. Includes recipe for borsch.
20) Wild girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
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