children of immigrants

Rumi Vasi, a gifted fourteen-year-old, feels trapped by her father's desire to make her the youngest student to attend Oxford University, her mother's longing to return to their native India, and her own dreams of being a normal teenage girl.

Twenty-six young people of different ages and nationalities describe their experience of leaving their countries and immigrating to the the United States.

This book chronicles a year in the lives of teenage newcomers to America who are on their way to the American dream. They represent forty-five countries, speak more than twenty-eight languages, and are all students at International High School, a public school in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

Pregnant with her American lover's child, a young Indian woman raised in the U.S. reluctantly agrees to an arranged marriage in her homeland and develops a genuine affection for her new husband, but a secret of his own keeps their love from blossoming further.

Briefly describes why a person's parent may not speak English, what effect this may have on a child, and how to handle this situation.

A brief history of Cuban American immigration and ancestry along with profiles of several prominent individuals including U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, actress Cameron Diaz, and journalist Soledad O'Brien.

This anthology examines four court cases affecting immigration: United States v. Wong Kim Ark, United States v. Schneiderman, Plyler v. Doe, and Zadvydas v. Davis.

Presents profiles of fourteen teenagers from countries around the world, revealing their struggles to fit into American society and their personal triumphs.

Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to his life in the America of today.

A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.