immigrant children

Newly arrived from Colombia, Isabella's first day of school in the United States is cancelled because of snow and when Isabella notices a girl playing outside she makes a new friend, despite the language barrier.

"Follow the journey of immigrant and refugee children from a leaky boat to a new country, a new school, and new friends in this simple counting book"--Provided by publisher.

The reader's choices as the main character direct the plot of the story that takes place in 1951, after the war, when an Australian airman near a small Italian village, tells the reader that they can be anything they want to be, and as they make the leap for lifein a new land, they are asked to stand up to bullies, stage a mutiny, and make a contribution to one of the greates engineering projects the world has ever seen.

"Sixteen young people from the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) in Washington, D.C. [come] together to tell their own stories of immigration and transformation in comics form" -- Amazon.

Presents the words and drawings of children from China, India, Russia, Argentina, Germany, and other countries, in which they describe their feelings about moving to Canada.

A collection of essays in which immigrant students from Wellstone International High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, share stories of their family, school, and dreams.

These are the memories, realities, and hopes of young people from twenty-two different countries, who by the turning of countless events were brought together into one classroom. In their own voices, these students describe their childhoods, reasons for leaving, first impressions of this land, and dreams of how they will contribute to it.

". . . a collection of twenty-one personal essays written by refugee and immigrant students, and one current teacher, from Cross Keys High School, Clarkston High School, and DeKalb International Studen Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

". . . [an] anthology of thirty personal essays written by Wisconsin immigrant high school students attending James Madison Memorial High Schol in Madison and Pulaski High School in Milwaukee . . ."--Back cover.

A collection of essays in which immigrant students from a high school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, share stories of their family, school, and dreams.