Juvenile / Social Situations / Social Issues / Emigration & Immigration

Uprising

von Margaret Peterson Haddix

The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the disaster,...

Inside Out & Back Again

von Thanhha Lai

Moving to America turns Hà’s life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the...

Under the Moonlit Sky

von Nav K. Gill

Its the spring of 1984 and life is getting exciting for young and beautiful Esha. However, one day changes everything, and she must fulfill her fathers last wish, taking her to a place she never dreamed of visiting:...

Letters from Rifka

von Karen Hesse

"America," the girl repeated. "What will you do there?"

I was silent for a little time.

"I will do everything there," I answered.

Rifka knows nothing about America when she flees from Russia with her family in...

90 Miles to Havana

von Enrique Flores-Galbis

When Julian's parents make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away from Cuba to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation, the boys are thrust into a new world where bullies run rampant and...

Is It Night or Day?

von Fern Schumer Chapman

It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone....

Brooklyn Bridge

von Karen Hesse & Chris Sheban

Karen Hesse has achieved many honors for her more than twenty books over the course of her award-winning career: the Newbery Medal, the Scott O’Dell Historical Fiction Award, the MacArthur Fellowship “Genius”...

Cherry Blossom Winter: A Cherry Blossom Book

von Jennifer Maruno

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 10-year-old Michiko's family's possessions are confiscated and they are sent to a small community. After a former Asahi baseball star becomes her new teacher, life gets better....

Racing Home

von Adele Dueck

It's 1908, and twelve-year-old Erik faces the challenges of adapting to pioneer life on the Canadian prairie and understanding what's really going on in his family.

Wanted

von Heidi Ayarbe

Sanctuary.

A one-word text message: That's all Michal "Mike" Garcia needs to gather a crowd. Mike is a seventeen-year-old bookie, and Sanctuary is where she takes bets for anyone at Carson City High with enough...

Finn

von Matthew Olshan

Imagine a modern-day retelling of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with a teenage girl and a very pregnant young Mexican as the main characters. That's the gist of Matthew Olshan's brilliant...

Trafficked

von Kim Purcell

A gripping thriller, ripped from the headlines!

Hannah believes she's being brought from Moldova to Los Angeles to become a nanny for a Russian family. But her American dream quickly spirals into a nightmare....

The Day of Yesterday

von Edna Iturralde

We all have moments in our lives that seem to get lost in time and space - and that's what award winning author Edna Iturralde writes about in The Day of Yesterday. For Daniela, the young protagonist of this...

Children of the River

von Linda Crew

Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.

Now, four...