aliens

"Engaging images accompany information about alien abductions. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--.

After an economic collapse and other disasters in the near future, Americans are now the legal and illegal immigrants living abroad. They find work in cities like Buenos Aires, where their very own enclave, known as "Americatown," has taken root. Owen, a recent arrival, begins a journey to support and save his splintered family divided between the enclave and home back in the U.S. His struggle is just a small part of the hardships and conflicting agendas in an immigrant community trying to build itself in the shadow of a once great nation.

"The Bad Guys are vanishing! A creature with tons of teeth and way too many butts is stealing them, one by one. Is this the end for the Bad Guys?"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at the legal rights given to immigrants in the United States.

"It's best-friendship at first contact after a flying saucer crashes outside a boy's house, and a Little Green Manwith a white jumpsuit and a snaggletoothed smile emerges... narration ... follows the two through the day. The boy's parents don't notice the new arrival, his classmates are mesmerized, and as for [his] teacher, she [thinks] she needsnew glasses. ... the passage of time is almost tangible in the way sunlight streams through windows or wanes as the friends race down a hill flying a kite. And when the alien'shomesickness sets in, it's light--specifically every light in the boy's house... --that attracts the attention of two green parents eager to find their child"--Publishers Weekly.

Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.

Provides illustrated instructions for folding origami space figures.

This book covers the history of immigration enforcement and its agencies, and explains in detail the legal process of deportation.

Examines why South Americans have left their homelands, how they have adapted to and changed North American culture, and what the future might hold for them in the United States and Canada.