Migration and refugees Books

Rani, wearing her beloved seashell necklace, enjoys going to school and playing with her little sister, Asma. But her family falls into hard times and she must leave school to support them. Though she is upset at first, a chance meeting at a refugee camp...

The Girl Who Slept Under the Moon follows the story of Noor, who arrives in a new country and feels like she doesn't belong in her new school.To feel better, Noor takes comfort in the things that remain the same and decides to stick to them. The most...

Slurping Soup and other confusions: true stories and activities to help third culture kids during transitionSlurping Soup And Other Confusions is a collection of twenty-three real life stories from third culture kids. Each story is followed by a related...

A teen dystopian thriller in a climate-changed world. "Grips and entices from the very first page" Phil Earle, author of HEROIC and BEING BILLY. Sea levels have risen. Whole populations are on the move and Britain has a zero immigration policy. When a...

En los medios de comunicación se difunden noticias sobre migrantes, a diario se sabe de personas tratando de llegar a los Estados Unidos, en búsqueda del famoso Sueño americano, un término que no es más que un simple...

From award-winning author, Thal Dixon, comes a creative story about immigration and integration set in a community of shapes.  It communicates that the different talents and abilities of the many shapes make a better place to live.

The Rohingya Crisis has received international coverage for the brutal treatment of the refugees. This book hopes to enlighten children on the world around them and to help them understand what others are going through. This is often a difficult topic...

A love letter to immigrant families everywhere!Jerk Chicken Magic is a heartwarming story of a multi-generational immigrant family (The Higgins), through the eyes of a charming 6-year-old girl named, Lizzy - as she explores the culinary magic of...

It is 1911, and nine-year-old Lily, an American-born child of Sicilian immigrants loves to sing, and wants to, has to, prove she is not a little kid. She and her large family are crammed into a three-room flat in New York City's Lower East Side. Everyone...

Lily has to do EVERYTHING. She bakes Daily Bread, minds her thumb-sucking little sister, hangs laundry on the roof, and keeps up with home chores her big sisters list. She even fetched a nurse from the Henry Street Settlement to save Mama and the new...

At one point in history, braving the Atlantic Ocean to start a new life in another continent was a chance to get rich or gain religious freedom. This book will break down the different reasons for North American colonization. The aim of this book is to...

Have you ever wondered why and how millions of people immigrated to America after 1870? This book explores the reasons for migration to the US. It also tackles how new social patterns, ideas of national unity and conflicts thrived despite the growing...

★ From the author of the best-selling and award-winning "A World of New Beginnings" comes the heartwarming sequel, "A World of Things That Won't Change." ★When Emma and Eliott move to a new home, they feel both excitement and a bit of sadness, wondering...

El Salvador 1979: The Civil War Escape--Memories of a Child is a story of courage, struggles, excitement, and successes of a young child and her family that left a third-world country during the civil war to go to the United States of America.This...

A picture book about refugees and animals that will make you catch your breath on the last page. There are millions of refugees around the world and many are held in detention centres for years, including children. In recent times, it feels as if...

This book is the third in the trilogy of books looking at the comparatively less-known destinations of Sikh migration to non-English speaking countries. The first one was Sikhs in Latin America, followed by Sikhs in Asia Pacific.Earlier Sikh migration...

In 1963, a young teenage girl moves with her mother and sisters from the suburbs to the downtown of a Midwestern city after her parents get a divorce. Emmie, a naïve, curious and intelligent girl, wants the security of her suburban life but has always...

This middle grade novel by bestselling author Nadia Hashimi tells the affecting story of an Afghan-American boy who believes his mother has been deported. For fans of Inside Out and Back Again and Counting by 7s. Jason has just learned that his Afghan...

In this acclaimed novel from Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, two sisters from the Philippines, abandoned by their father and living in impoverished circumstances in Louisiana, fight to make their lives better.School Library Journal called The Land...

Adam and Luis are ordinary teens whose lives revolve around school, soccer, friends,  and relationships. Against the backdrop of today’s volatile era of immigration and its politics, however, the bonds of these life-long friends will be tested...

When Miss Onya's class has the chance to create a mosaic piece of art depicting Canada, they are each given a different tile to glue down. As they begin to place their tiles down to create Canada, they each explain how their tile reminds them of...

Twelve-year-old Leon is among a group of 120 boys sent to New England in the 1870s by the Emperor of China as part of a Chinese educational mission. Once there, he falls in love with baseball, even though he's expressly forbidden to play. The boy's host...

Lucita: A Child's Story of Old Mexico is a children's book written by Ruth Louise Gaines and originally published in 1913. The story follows the life of young Lucita, a girl living in Mexico during the early 1900s. Through Lucita's eyes, readers are...

تعود كتاب قصة "ماريمبا" إلى قصة حقيقية لعائلة من تشياباس في المكسيك، والتي هاجرت إلى الولايات المتحدة. عندما ينتقل الناس من بلدان إلى أخرى، ترافقهم الآلات الموسيقية أحيانًا في رحلتهم وتساعدهم في العثور على حياة جديدة وأفضل.

Does your child ever question how truly valuable and precious they are? Do you want to infuse them with self-worth and an identity that can't be taken away?The Place Where I Belong / El lugar al que pertenezco helps children discover that no matter what...

Set along the international border between El Paso, Texas, and Cuidad Juárez, Mexico, AMERICAN TUMBLEWEEDS tells the bittersweet story of a Mexican-American family's struggle to stay together as tradition collides with the social upheaval of 1960s...

Fifteen-year-old Luis Romero has lived his whole life on the back side of horse racing. Seven days a week, undocumented people like his mother Blanca live and work to feed, groom, exercise, care for, and clean up after the high-strung horses with long...

¡Niños y adultos disfrutarán de este libro de capítulos mágico con ilustraciones a todo color para leer en voz alta o para leer por su cuenta! Es un libro perfecto para familias y niños de 7 a 10 años.Rico, Diego y Araceli Martínez pensaron que sus...

A middle school-aged girl named Natalia experiences conflicts with her so-called "friends". They force Natalia to help them harass a shy classmate named Yesenia, who has just immigrated to the United States from Colombia only several months ago...

Young Susan Sinclair is a typical girl whose most exotic pastime, in the normal course of things, is her weekly martial arts class. But when a complete stranger gives her a rare crystal while she’s at a flea market with her parents, everything...

Wandsworth is a modest town but turns into a place of hullabaloo owing to migration and influx of foreign nationals into it. This used to be a quiet atmosphere but changes with time. There is one shinning star that casts hope on the town and gives it a...

What is like for a kid to move to a foreign country? It is a journey full of excitement and a road of pitfalls. In "The Traveling Sketchbook", kids encounter all these things moving into a Japanese neighborhood.

Would you lay down your life for a friend?Budding playwright Allie prefers to keep her drama on the stage......until she goes on a week's sixth-form trip to the stunning but treacherous Morecambe Bay where she meets a mysterious boy whose accent she...

Sasha's got a problem-and she thinks it's her mom.  Sasha's having a rough time fitting in at her new school and her too-much mom isn't helping. Her mom is too tall, too loud, and way too colourful. Worst of all, her mom doesn't sound like any of...

A grandmother tells her young granddaughter about her emigration from Lebanon to the United States.

21 MILES revisits the much-loved protagonist of 29 LOCKS two years after his canal boat adventure as a fifteen-year-old. Older, wiser and more confident, life is going well for the former gang member who'd escaped a brutal life of criminal exploitation...

It is the Christmas and Hanukkah holidays, 1911-a time for charity and wishes. Lily's days are too crowded, living in a three-room apartment with her large and growing family. She must sleep in a bedroll on the floor with her sisters, share a seat at the...

In order to develop a sense of patriotism in your child, how about educating him/her about the tedious process of gaining US citizenship? You can use this educational book as a valuable resource for such purpose. Giving your child books will encourage a...

Are you concerned about how your children will be affected by the challenges and crises in this world? Are you hearing more and more about poverty, immigration, and human trafficking on the news? Do you sometimes wonder how you can talk with your kids...

Esta obra compartilha insights valiosos e conhecimentos práticos do processo de migração para outro país, tanto do ponto de vista do imigrante, como sob a perspectiva da autora, como advogada no campo da imigração. O livro explora histórias da trajetória...

"Sometimes people disappear into the North and are never heard from again."When her papá doesn't return, twelve-year-old Ixchel, a Maya from the Yucatan, resolves to leave home and make her way across the treacherous border into the United States to find...

Ana's family moved to the United States and now Ana was faced with learning to read in English. Nervous anticipation, anxiety, and worry, gives way to the comfort of discovering new skills as Ana begins to learn to read. This heartwarming story...

Meet Rosie, a fish whose world gets thrown upside down when her family has to move to a new place. She soon has to learn a new language and make new friends. She discovers that being bilingual is not always easy, but on the day of her birthday she makes...

The Charles River divides Boston and Cambridge, and the Red Line ties the cities together, traveling through classes and cultures along its route. When an unlikely group shares an afternoon train, the riders are surprised to discover what’s common...