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Children of immigrants Children of immigrants Juvenile fiction Enfants d'immigrants Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Friendship Fiction Immigrants Fiction Muslim families Juvenile fiction Muslims United States Fiction Somali Americans Somali Americans Fiction Somali Americans Juvenile fictionLim, Rebecca
Summary: "Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIMNuurali, Siman
Summary: Sadiq and his friends are starting a video game club at school and planning a tournament for the whole school to participate in, but their teacher reminds them that they also have to have a service pledge, and they are not really sure how video games fit in with the goal of helping others--until a visit to an assisted living home where his mother volunteers gives him an idea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUPhi, Bao
Summary: Every child is bursting with amazing possibilities and poet Bao Phi celebrates the complex identity of the children of immigrants and refugees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHINuurali, Siman
Summary: His school is starting a newspaper club, and Sadiq wants to be a reporter--but he is troubled because the editor-in-chief, Katy, seems more intent on embarrassing people with gossip than in reporting actual news stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUSummary: A collection of twelve stories about the residents of the Entrada apartment building and how their lives are linked as multigenerational immigrant families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: 2003: the US has officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has dropped out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFNuurali, Siman
Summary: There is an empty lot in Sadiq's neighborhood which is in serious need of cleaning up, and Sadiq has come up with an idea of what to do with it afterwards: build a community garden--so Sadiq sets out to get his classmates and friends involved and make the garden a true community success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUNuurali, Siman
Summary: Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUYee, Lisa
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEECopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEENuurali, Siman
Summary: In order to earn enough money to buy a birthday gift for his mother Sadiq, his siblings, and his friends start a cookie delivery business, but baking and delivering cookies proves to be more complicated (and messy) than they expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUElhillo, Safia
Summary: "Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me A World 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELHNuurali, Siman
Summary: Eight-year-old Sadiq wants to try out for the youth football team like his friends, but his parents feel he is too young, and instead suggest that he take up running and join the track club--Sadiq feels that running is wimpy, but the coach convinces him that running races can be fun as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUKelly, Erin Entrada
Summary: Marisol Rainey's mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol's father works and lives part-time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina, but she's way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC KELNuurali, Siman
Summary: Sadiq's third grade class decides that they want a classroom pet, and their teacher, Ms. Battersby, is okay with the idea, so the students form a club to decide what kind of pet to get, and to research how to take care of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUULiao, Jenny
Summary: Chinese American Zia helps her mom tell her classmates about her job as a seamstress through translation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIABrown, Waka T.
Summary: "In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams. As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROChang, Victoria
Summary: "Frances Chin, a 10-year old Chinese-American girl, lives in the suburbs of Detroit with her immigrant parents and older sister, Clara. At school Frances copes with bullies and the loneliness that comes with not quite fitting in. At home, she feels a different kind of aloneness. Her parents are preoccupied with work and worry about Clara, whose hair is inexplicably falling out. But, with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAShaw, Janet.
Summary: "Taking place in 1854, Kirsten's stories follow the young Swedish immigrant and her family as they attempt to start a new life on a farm in frontier Minnesota. This collection includes: Meet Kirsten, Kirsten Learns a Lesson, Kirsten's Surprise, Happy Birthday, Kirsten!, Kirsten Saves the Day, and Changes for Kirsten."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011