women immigrants

The story of a Chinese-American pioneer woman who overcame poverty, foot-binding, and slavery to build a life of relative freedom in the American Northwest.

Describes the stories of immigrant women drawn from diaries and letters revealing their feelings on a variety of subjects.

Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.

Tashi, an African woman married to an African-American missionary, struggles to deal with the psychological effects of the brutal circumcision she underwent in adolescence, which causes her son brain damage in birth and results in her facing a murder charge.

The Aminpour sisters flee their native Iran for Ireland, hoping they might finally be able to build a peaceful home for themselves, and as they draw in the townsfolk with their fragrant pastries, they learn what it means to find a home.

A chance encounter between two families--the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans--at the Baltimore airport prompts an examination about what it means to be an American.

Presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel set during seventeenth century New England about a young woman, Hester Prynne, who is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as a symbol of her adultery; and contains over 800 SAT vocabulary words with definitions.