In 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristin travels with her family from Sweden to a new life in Minnesota, where she finds herself frustrated by the restrictions placed on what girls of her age are expected or allowed to do.
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
As a young Jewish immigrant from Bavaria in the mid-nineteenth century, the reader makes decisions that mirror the choices made by new Jewish Americans as they settled in the United States.
In 1970s San Francisco, Julie and her best friend Ivy learn about Chinese immigration in the early twentieth century when they investigate a mysterious doll theft.
In 1901, twelve-year-old Jake and his sister travel from Lithuania to Texas and find a totally different world, including suffragettes, swindlers, a mysterious youth with strange powers, and a compassionate rabbi.
Presents a history of immigrants and refugees to America and examines their reasons for leaving their own country, the types of immigrants who have sought asylum in the U.S., the controversy over illegal immigration, and the changing attitudes towards immigrants.
Before she leaves for America, Aunt Rachel gives David a box full of English words to learn, and then one day an old rocking horse appears at his door.
