immigration and emigration

Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.

Writing in the diary which her father gave her, thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her father in Havana, Cuba in 1967 as well as her experiences in Miami, Florida after immigrating there to be reunited with some relatives while leaving others behind.

When his father leads him on a magical trip of discovery through new fallen snow, a young boy who emigrated from his warm island home overcomes fears about living in New York.

"Economist Bryan Caplan makes a . . . case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic nonfiction"--Amazon.com.

Evan, the nephew of a conservative southern senator, and Alma, who lives with her large, warm Mexican family, fall in love, but when Immigration and Customs Enforcement begins raids on their town, Alma knows she needs to tell Evan her secrets, but how can she tell her country-club boyfriend that she is an undocumented immigrant?.

When Carlos' older brother, Felix, is tragically killed in Mexico, he flees to the United States to pursue his dream of working as a chef, but when he falls for his boss' daughter at the risk of losing his job, he must reassess what's most important to him.

A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

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.