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...
Immigrants
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Author:Weeks, SarahSummary: - Author:Thúy, KimSummary:
Écrit sur un ton féminin, sensible et très original, Ru dénote un grand talent dans l'art de raconter, où le souvenir devient prétexte tantôt au jeu, tantôt au recueillement. L'ouvrage est composé de très courts...
- Author:Thúy, KimSummary:
Vignettes describe a journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to...
- Author:Yang, KellySummary:
New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang is back with another heartwarming and inspiring story of Mia and friends!Mia Tang is going for her dreams!After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family --...
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Author:McNicoll, SylviaSummary:When twelve-year-old William Alton and his father sail from England for new opportunities on the Empress of Ireland, they leave behind the graves of his mother and baby sister. Will only hopes they will leave death and disease behind...
- Author:Pawlowicz, JuliaSummary:
Trois grandes vagues – la mort de son père, la disparition de sa mère, la passion amoureuse – secouent la vie de Maria. Désormais seule avec son frère, dans une Amérique qu’elle n’a pas choisi d’habiter, elle cherche à se reconstruire....
- Author:Little, J.I.Summary:
The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trentare not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly...
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Author:Reddy, PratapSummary:Ramya, an immigrant from India, is nearing her 50th birthday. But there's no cause to cheer. Recently separated, and laid off from work as well, she feels lonely, alienated, and despondent. Then one day she chances upon a...
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Author:Wishinsky, FriedaSummary:When Renata is chosen to play the lead role in the school musical, students who used to ignore her start saying hello and congratulating her in the hall. She is happy until it becomes evident that Karin, a wealthy girl who expected to...
- Author:Bauder, HaraldSummary:
When migrants reach their new home, we often interpret their settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market. But family plays a crucial role. Putting Family First investigates the experience of...
- Author:Jaenen, Cornelius J.Summary:
In this comprehensive study of Belgian settlement in western Canada, Cornelius Jaenen shows that Belgian immigration was unique in its character and brought with it significant benefits out of proportion to its comparatively small...
- Author:Van Vugt, William E.Summary:
Portrait of an English Migrationrecounts the history of those who left North Yorkshire for North America between the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Focusing on individual stories of migrants and their families, this...
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Author:Halsey, JacquelineSummary:It's 1773 and twelve-year-old Dougal Cameron and his whole family are set to sail away from their Scotland home forever. When tragedy strikes, the family must decide whether or not to make the trip without Dougal's father. Once the ship...
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Author:Gilbert, Kelly LoySummary:When Danny discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined. Danny has been an artist for as...
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Author:Stonier-Newman, LynneSummary:Powerful and diligent, Peter O’Reilly played a role in shaping British Columbia in the last quarter of the 1800s. An immigrant from Ireland, O’Reilly landed in Victoria during the height of the Cariboo Gold Rush and was appointed gold...
- Author:Dennis-Benn, NicoleSummary:
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest...
- Author:Ignatieff, MichaelSummary:
In first-hand accounts, these celebrated writers explore the excitement and anguish of uprooting to a new country. Childhood memories, familiar streets, the aromas of local cooking, long-cherished plans -- to leave all this behind can...
- Author:Luo, SusieSummary:
Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States...
- Author:Nguyen, BethSummary:
Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily Selected by Time , NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023 "This book...is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be." - Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy...
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Author:Little, JeanSummary:Victoria Cope's family takes in a "Home Child", an orphaned or abandoned child from England brought to Canada to work as farm labourers or domestic servants at the turn of the century. Mary Anna is a sad, quiet child, who Victoria...
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