Niebuhr-Siebert, Sandra
Summary: Mina is worried about starting a new kindergarten in her new country. The classroom is full of laughter, friendly faces and fun things to do, but the only word Mina can understand is her name. As she listens to stories and songs, chatter and instructions, Mina's understanding steadily grows. She tries out sounds that roar in her throat and tickle her tongue until the new words feel like her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NIEWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are lots of reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from. Maybe it's what you eat or something just as random. Whatever it is, it's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody knows you, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG WOOArnaldur Indridason
Summary: On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNMorales, Areli
Summary: "In the first picture book written by a DACA dreamer, Areli Morales tells her own powerful and vibrant immigration story of moving from a quiet town in Mexico to the bustling and noisy metropolis of New York City"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORSummary: In a unique collaboration with photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, eighteen immigrant teenagers create an alphabet defining their experiences in pictures and words. Wendy helped the teenagers pose for and design the photographs, interviewing them along the way about their own journeys and perspectives. America Border Culture Dreamer presents Wendy and the students' poignant and powerful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018