emigration and immigration

When his family leaves their war-torn country to come to live in America, a young boy has trouble adjusting, until his grandfather helps him find what he had missed most.

Bram and his family leave their small brick house in Holland and travel to a new life in New York City.

When his family moves from the Dominican Republic to New York City, Jaime uses his uncle's magical shell to call up happy memories.

When his family comes to America, Jake brings special seeds that produce a wonderful reminder of his grandfather.

Just moved from India, Gita looks forward to her favorite holiday, Divali, but things are so different in her new home that she wonders if she will ever adjust.

Although she is embarrassed when her grandmother reminisces with an old friend in public, Rebecca loves her and enjoys hearing stories about her grandmother's life in America when she first came from Russia.

Thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.

Hassan, newly-arrived in the United States and feeling homesick, paints a picture at school that shows his old home in Somalia as well as the reason his family had to leave.

Presents a collection of poems which chronicles a year in the life of a young boy from Hong Kong as he adjusts to his new home in the Chinatown of an American city.

Soon after Katie wishes for her potatoes to disappear during dinner, a potato famine ravages her native Ireland, forcing her to leave for America.