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Vu, Don

Summary: Award-winning principal and literacy advocate Don Vu examines six conditions of a school’s culture of literacy (Commitment, Collection, Clock, Conversation, Connection, and Celebration), showing how to create an environment where all students—especially immigrant and refugee children—can thrive. Vu’s work is a testament to the transformative power of reading—a key to opening the door for all to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 302.2244 VU

Thorpe, Helen

Summary: Follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers from nations devastated by drought or famine or war, over the course of their first school year in America. The talented and endlessly resourceful Denver South High School teacher Mr. Eddie Williams welcomes these students, who speak fourteen different languages but no English and are completely unfamiliar with American culture, to his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 373 THO

Newman, Katherine S.

Summary: "In No Shame in My Game, anthropologist Katherine Newman presents a view of inner-city poverty radically different from that commonly accepted. The all-too-prevalent picture we get of the poor today - in the media, in the political sphere, and in scholarly studies - is of alienated minorities living in big-city ghettos, lacking in values and family structure, criminally inclined, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 NEW

Swope, Sam.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.623 SWO

Wallmark, Laurie

Summary: "A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WAL

Summary: In 1900, 6% of America's children graduated from high school; by 1945, 51% graduated and 40% went on to college. This program recalls how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education. Also explored are the impact of John Dewey's progressive ideas as well as the effects on students of controversial IQ tests,...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Anta, Julio

Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANT

Liao, Jenny

Summary: Chinese American Zia helps her mom tell her classmates about her job as a seamstress through translation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIA

Summary: From the Czarist persecutions to those of Hitler, America provided a haven for Jews. Their influx made New York the world's most densely populated city. They went on to become one of the most influential immigrant groups in America.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Phi, Bao

Summary: Every child is bursting with amazing possibilities and poet Bao Phi celebrates the complex identity of the children of immigrants and refugees.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHI

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.23 EWA

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