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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorEsperanza Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan · 262 pages
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
Kathryn Lasky · 190 pages
New dreams and old traditions flourish and clash when a Jewish girl and her family emigrate from Russia to America.
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Bette Bao Lord · 169 pages
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
Wildflower Girl
Marita Conlon-McKenna · 176 pages
The Settlers (Emigrants 3)
Vilhelm Moberg
So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847
Barry Denenberg · 170 pages
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
Maggie's Door
Patricia Reilly Giff · 167 pages
We will dance on the cliffs of Brooklyn.Maggie's Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination--the home of Nory's sister Maggie, at 416 Smith Street, Brooklyn, America. Patricia Reilly Giff calls upon her long research into Irish history and her great powers as a storyteller i
Dreams of Joy
Lisa See · 354 pages
A continuation of "Shanghai Girls" finds a devastated Joy fleeing to China to search for her real father while her mother, Pearl, desperately pursues her, a dual quest marked by their encounters with the nation's intolerant Communist culture.
A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska
Susan Campbell Bartoletti · 226 pages
Annetka Kaminska is a thirteen-year-old girl living in Russian-controlled Poland in 1896. She bitterly resents the Russians that have taken over her country and are forcing her people to give up their language and customs. But she is even more angry when her father, living in America, arranges a marriage for her, with a Pennsylvania coal miner twice her age. A widower with three little girls, Stan
The Red Umbrella
Christina Diaz Gonzalez · 284 pages
The Red Umbrella is the moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan--an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution.In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucia Alvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the so
Dragonwings
Laurence Yep · 248 pages
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. Annotation. Will Windrider take to the skies? Moon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Firoozeh Dumas · 384 pages
"Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s"--
A Land to Call Home
Lauraine Snelling · 320 pages
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver · 240 pages
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian making her way west with an abandoned baby girl, stops in Tucson where she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.
A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall
Sarah Ellis · 206 pages
Mai 1926. Originaires d'Angleterre, Evelyn Weatherall, 11 ans, et sa famille émigrent en Saskatchewan après avoir été influencées par la publicité idyllique de l'immigration au Canada. Dans son journal, la fillette relate le quotidien de sa famille (les difficultés de ses parents à trouver un travail stable, l'obligation de son frère aîné à travailler pour payer les dettes de son oncle, les différ
The King of Mulberry Street
Donna Jo Napoli · 245 pages
In 1892, Dom, a nine-year old stowaway from Naples, Italy, arrives in New York and must learn to survive the perils of street life in the big city.
Lucky Broken Girl
Ruth Behar · 243 pages
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
Angel Cake
Cathy Cassidy · 256 pages
Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her: she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged. Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. He’s no angel: but she’s sure there’s a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart: Anya realizes she’s not alone – how can Dan be such bad news when being wit
Ellis Island
Kate Kerrigan · 368 pages
"In 1920s New York, a young Irish woman must choose between her new life and her husband back home in Ireland"--
Hope Springs
Sarah M. Eden · 391 pages
Irish-born Kate Macauley is caught in the feud that is raging between the American farmers and the Irish immigrants in the small Wyoming town of Hope Springs. She is also torn between loving two very different men.
Giants in the Earth
O.E. Rolvaag · 560 pages
Fields of Grace
Kim Vogel Sawyer · 341 pages
With their eldest son about to be drafted into military service, Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt decide to immigrate to America with their three sons and Reinhardt's adopted brother. After tragedy strikes during the voyage, their hopeful dreams turn to dust. Can they maintain the faith of their fathers in a new land?
Under This Unbroken Sky
Shandi Mitchell · 354 pages
The story of an immigrant family trying to build a life in an unforgiving new world, Under This Unbroken Sky is a mesmerizing and absorbing first novel of love and greed, pride and desperation. Award-winning writer Shandi Mitchell based this evocative and compelling narrative of struggle and survival on the Canadian prairie on her own family history. Evocative and compelling, rich in imagination a
Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (Dear America Series)
Deborah Hopkinson · 188 pages
ngela and her family have arrived in New York City from their village in Italy to find themselves settled in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. When her father is no longer able to work, Angela must leave school and work in a shirtwaist factory. Against the backdrop of the birth of the labor union movement in the early 1900s, Angela plays a part in the drama and turmoil that erupt