children of immigrants

This handbook for educators of K-12 students from Somalia is an invaluable guide to the cultural, religious, socioeconomic, and family issues that these refugee students bring the the classroom. The authors present a sensitive portrait of the traumatic experiences that refugee Somaili families in the United States had to endure in their escape from war to a new life.

In poetic free verse, a thirteen-year-old Serbian girl describes her life in America after being badly burned during the war in Kosovo.

Contains an introduction to the different games and sports children play in the United States and Latin America, in simple text with illustrations, providing information on basketball, kick the can, Loteria, jump rope, and more. Presented in Spanish and English.

Contains an introduction to the music of Latin America, in simple text with illustrations, providing information on its instruments, sounds, and musical traditions, including mariachis, flamenco, salsa, and more. Presented in English and Spanish.

Provides a collection of prose and poetry that examines issues relating to immigration and includes artists such as Li-Young Lee, Jamaica Kincaid, and Helena Maria Viramontes.

Provides an account of the author's life growing up in mid-century Brooklyn as the Jewish-Arabic child of an Iraqi father and Syrian mother. Explores his artistic awakening in the context of his Sephardic community. Compares the tension between the Arab and Jewish nations to the tensions in his family and within himself.

Presents a number of short narratives from first-generation women who discuss their cultural identities and experiences growing up in a bicultural atmosphere.

During the Depression-era in California, Richard, a young Mexican American, experiences a conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas.

Text and photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at home, school, work, and play during the late 1800's and early 1900's.