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The beautiful story of diversity follows a young girl named Kanzi whose most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one.
When her new classmates tease her, Kanzi finds comfort in wrapping up in a quilt from her teita and writing poetry.
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59 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
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In a unique collaboration with photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, eighteen immigrant teenagers create an alphabet defining their experiences in pictures and words. Wendy helped the teenagers pose for and design the photographs, interviewing them along the way about their own journeys and perspectives. America Border Culture Dreamer presents Wendy and the students' poignant and powerful images and definitions along with their personal stories of...
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"A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity"--
"Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students...
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195 pages ; 23 cm
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"A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--
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555 pages ; 24 cm.
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"María Paz es una joven latina que, como tantas otras, ha llegado a Estados Unidos persiguiendo la utopía. Pero el sueño americano se convierte en pesadilla cuando es acusada del asesinato de su marido, un policía blanco, y condenada a prisión. Sin embargo, la vida de María Paz dará un giro vertiginoso cuando descubra que el verdadero horror, el que pondrá a prueba todo su temple, está esperándola fuera de las rejas. Laura Restrepo nos atrapa...
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216 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"When Carlos was nineteen, his mother decided to leave her life in El Salvador. Refusing to let her go without him, Carlos joined the journey north. Together they experienced the risks countless people faces as they migrate"--
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"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
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