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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects."--Page [2] of cover.
"own voices"
4) You are life
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Every child is bursting with amazing possibilities and poet Bao Phi celebrates the complex identity of the children of immigrants and refugees.
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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"--
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Sadiq volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom's plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance (where she and her family are the only Asian Americans) and at the Golden Palace--the restaurant that's been in her family for generations--she makes some discoveries. For instance:
You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Ninth grader Renata Nunes, a Brazilian immigrant who has won the lead part in her school's musical, finally gets the strength to stand up to Karin, her hateful understudy, when Karin humiliates her in hopes of stealing the role through intimidation.
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Sadiq volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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There is an empty lot in Sadiq's neighborhood which is in serious need of cleaning up, and Sadiq has come up with an idea of what to do with it afterwards: build a community garden--so Sadiq sets out to get his classmates and friends involved and make the garden a true community success.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
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It’s 1985 and ten-year-old Gabrielle is excited to be moving from Haiti to America. Unfortunately, her parents won’t be able to join her yet and she’ll be living in a place called Brooklyn, New York, with relatives she has never met. She promises her parents that she will behave, but life proves to be difficult in the United States, from learning the language to always feeling like she doesn’t fit in to being bullied. So when a witch offers...
14) My America
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"In this beautiful celebration of immigration, children from around the world tell their stories, sharing their love of where they're from and where they live now--homes old and new. As they describe the foods they eat, the languages they've learned, the sports they play, and more, the differences and similarities that link us all are revealed"--
15) City of orphans
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
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In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
16) Hanukkah hamster
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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After finding a hamster that has been left behind in his taxi, a lonely immigrant cab driver celebrates Hanukkah with the little creature, while waiting to learn if the owner will return.
17) Javi Takes a Bow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Javi is painfully shy. English is his second language and he struggles with his speech. Rather than communicating in broken English, Javi prefers not to speak at all. That is, until the Club holds auditions for Javi's favorite musical. Can Javi overcome his fear of speaking in front of people to audition for the part?
19) My two blankets
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.