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**All youth books can be found in the Ann Arbor District Library Youth Department.
Dancing
with Dziadziu by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Harcourt Brace & Company: New York, 1997.
Little Gabriella loves to hear stories, told by her grandmother Babci,
of life in Poland long ago. She especially likes to hear about her grandfather,
Dziadziu, whom she never had a chance to meet.
AADL Call Number: E BAR
Painted Words
by Aliki Brandenberg
Greenwillow Books: New York, 1998.
Nervous about being in a new country and going to a new school, for the
first time, Marianthe ventures into the clasroom. The people speak different
languages and it is so hard to understand, but through the power of pictures,
Marianthe is able to communicate and learn new things in her new world.
AADL Call Number: E ALI
Spoken Memories
by Aliki Brandenberg
Greenwillow Books: New York, 1998.
Sharing a culture people are not familiar with can be very difficult.
Marianthe tells her story of growing up in a village in Greece. She tells
of the happy and sad memories, the different things people did, and the
fun and laughter shared under the stars. Go back with Marianthe to know
more about her life in the homeland.
AADL Call Number: E ALI
The Lotus Seed
by Sherry Garland
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers: San Diego, 1993.
A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere
to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee.
AADL Call Number: E GAR
Lights for Gita
by Rachna Gilmore
Tilbury House: Gardiner, Maine, 1994
Divali, a festival of lights, observed by the Hindus, honors the Goddess
of Wealth, who brings good fortune and prosperity all year. This story
is of Gita, who is celebrating Divali in a new home. But freezing rain
threatens the fun Gita, her family, and her friends are expecting.
AADL Call Number: E GIL HOLIDAY
The Tangerine
Tree by Regina Hanson
Clarion Books: New York, 1995.
Ida is sad because her daddy is traveling from Jamaica all the way to
New York for a long time. She climbs her favorite tangerine tree to avoid
saying goodbye. But the tree soon shows Ida how she can send a bit of
home with her father, and also how she can keep her father in her thoughts
while he is gone.
AADL Call Number: E HAN
A Very Important
Day by Maggie Rugg Herold
Morrow Junior Books: New York, 1995
One very important day, in New York City, little Nelia wakes up to find
snow. This would never happen in the Philippines. Little Kiki is also
puzzled when she sees the snow. Her home country of Greece rarely had
snow. Despite the weather, these two girls and their family and friends
head towards their important destination on a very important day.
AADL Call Number: E HER
When Jessie
Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
Candlewick Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997.
Given the chance to go to America, Jessie says goodbye to her grandmother
and old life, and starts on a new journey in New York City, sewing lace
for her Cousin Kay. Three years pass and Jessie has become a young woman.
Jessie has been saving her money, in order to bring her grandmother to
America. Jessie wants Grandmother to meet a very special person in her
life, the man she met for the first time on the voyage across the sea.
AADL Call Number: J Fiction
The Morning
Chair by Barbara M. Joosse
Clarion Books: New York, 1995.
The fear of moving to a new country and not knowing anyone, and not speaking
the language can be scary for anyone. When Bram and his family move from
Holland, they leave behind all they know. But in time, Bram realizes how
much he enjoys the new things he sees and does, and also the quiet times
he shares with his mother.
AADL Call Number: E JOO
Dear America:
Dreams in the Golden Country by Kathryn Lasky
Scholastic Inc.: New York, 1998.
This book is a diary of a Jewish immigrant girl named Zipporah Feldman.
it spans a year and a half of her life in New York City. Zipporah has
dreams of becoming an actress in this new world.
AADL Call Number: Y Fiction
I Hate
English by Ellen Levine
Scholastic Inc.: New York, 1989.
Mei Mei is a young girl who has recently moved to New York from China.
She likes living in Chinatown, where everyone speaks and looks the way
she does. But in school it is a different story. Mei Mei refuses to speak
English, until she meets a teacher who helps Mei Mei in a surprising way.
AADL Call Number: E LEV
Soon, Annala
by Riki Levinson
Orchard Books: New York, 1993.
A story of an immigrant family who have been separated for almost a year.
Ann, her mother and father, and older sister and brother have been waiting
to see the two younger brothers who stayed in their homeland. But now
they await their very near arrival. Soon they will be a family, together,
once more.
AADL Call Number: E LEV
The Magic Shell
by Nicholasa Mohr
Scholastic Inc.: New York, 1995.
When his family moves from the Dominican Republic to New York City, Jaime
uses his uncle's magical shell to call up happy memories.
AADL Call Number: J Fiction
In America
by Marissa Moss
Dutton Children's Books: New York, 1994.
Courage, fear and meanness, old traditions and new freedoms are all found
in this story of Walter and his Grandpa. When Grandpa was young, he left
his brother in Lithuania, to come to America. Walter is amazed to learn
what Grandpa didn't know about America before he came. Walter wonders
if he could make a trip like that.
AADL Call Number: E MOS
Sitti's Secrets
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Four Winds Press: New York, 1994.
Mona, a young girl, describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinian
village on the West Bank. They have been separated many miles, but once
they meet and share their days, they remain close, in heart, forever.
AADL Call Number: E NYE
The Keeping
Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Simon & Schuster, Inc.: New York, 1988.
Quilts can keep you very warm, but what else can they do? In this story,
a Jewish family, who immigrated to America, created a quilt of the homeland
to keep with them. Made from materials such as dresses and aprons, this
quilt was passed from generation to generation, and used on special occasions.
Made with love, this quilt does more than just keep you warm. It keeps
the history of this family alive.
AADL Call Number: E POL
The American
Wei by Marion Hess Pomeranc
Albert Whitman & Company: Morton Grove, Illinois, 1998.
Wei Fong has a loose tooth, and he's very excited about his first Tooth
Fairy visit, which he hopes will be today. But today is also special because
he and his family are going to the courthouse to be sworn in as American
citizens. Suddenly, Wei disappears. His family finds him kneeling on the
sidewalk, looking for his tooth. Can the family find it in time for the
ceremony?
AADL Call Number: E POM
The Hand-Me-Down-Horse
by Marion Hess Pomeranc
Albert Whitman & Company: Morton Grove, Illinois, 1996.
World War II is over, and David Solomon and his family, like many other
Jewish families, are waiting to immigrate to America. But he has waited
for so long, he feels he will never get there. Disgruntled, he will not
even think about America anymore. Then one day, he receives a gift from
a child who has left for America. It is a beautiful rocking horse. David
rides and rides, which, in time, brings back his dream of America.
AADL Call Number: E POM
What Zeesie
Saw on Delancey Street by Elsa Okon Rael
Simon & Schuster Publishing: New York, 1996.
A young Jewish girl, Zeesie, living on Manhattan's Lower East Side, attends
her first "package party" where she learns about the traditions of generosity,
courage, and community among Jewish immigrants in the early 1900's.
AADL Call Number: E RAE
The Silence
in the Mountains by Liz Rosenberg
Orchard Books: New York, 1999.
When war breaks out, Iskander and his family must move from his country,
to America. Despite all the new things Iskander sees and does, he still
wants to be back home. He tries to get used to his new surroundings, yet
he feels something is missing. Grandfather is the only person who understands
just how Iskander feels. Together they realize just what makes a place
feel like home.
AADL Call Number: J Fiction
The Long Way
to a New Land by Joan Sandin
Harper & Row, Publishers: New York, 1981.
Carl Erik and his family struggled to create a life in Sweden. Crops failed,
cows could not give milk, and soon it would be winter. It didn't look
good for this little family. A letter from an uncle in America said life
was good there. The family decided to sell everything and go to America.
A very detailed and realistic story of what it was like on the trip, and
first thoughts of their new country.
AADL Call Number: READER SAN
The Long Way
Westward by Joan Sandin
Harper & Row, Publishers: New York, 1989.
Carl Erik and his family have recently immigrated to America from Sweden.
they now wanted to live someplace not so big and crowded as New York City.
This is their story of the journey from New York to their new home in
Minnesota.
AADL Call Number: READER SAN
The Memory Coat
by Elvira Woodruff
Scholastic Press: New York, 1999.
In the early 1900's, Rachel and Grisha, two young cousins, and their family
leave their Russian home to come to Amercia. The hope of passing the dreadful
inspection at Ellis Island lays heavily on their minds.
AADL Call Number: J Fiction
Tales
of the Elders by Carol Ann Bales.
Follett Publishing Company: Chicago, 1977. This is a collection of memories
during the Great Migration (1900-1930). Twelve men and women who made
the journey to America during those years tell their stories. They tell
of what they left behind and why; how they made their way to America;
what they hoped to find here, and much more.
AADL Call Number: Y 325.73 Ba
Dia's Story
Cloth: The Hmong People's Journey of Freedom by Dia Cha.
Lee & Low Books Inc.: New York, 1996.
This is the story of the Hmong people, and the hardships they experienced
in China many years ago. It follows the Hmong people from China to Laos,
and then Thailand. The Hmong people created hand-embroidered story clothes
to tell about life. This book will tell you about a particular family's
life.
AADL Call Number: J 305.895 Ch
Angel Island
Prisoner 1922 by Helen Chetin
New Seed Press: Berkeley, CA, 1982.
Bravery, love between family, friends and one's own people, strength and
dignity are all themes found in the story of 31 Chinese immigrants who
traveled across the ocean to San Francisco in 1922. But in order to enter
America, they had to wait on Angel Island for permission. Share in their
happy and sad moments on Angel Island.
AADL Call Number: J 495.1 Ch
Immigrant Kids
by Russell Freedman
E.P. Dutton: New York, 1980.
Text and period photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at
home, school, work and play during the late 1800's and early 1900's. See
how they gained a taste for the wonderful freedom their parents had come
to America to find.
AADL Call Number: J 325.73 Fr
The Chinese
American Family Album by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Oxford University Press: New York, 1994.
This is a scrapbook of family letters and diary entries, official documents,
newspaper articles, and excerpts from literature of the past and present
- a personal remembrance of an extended family of Chinese immigrants and
their descendents.
AADL Call Number: Y 305.895 Ho
The Cuban American
Family Album by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Oxford University Press: New York, 1996.
A book of memoirs, pictures, and written records and documents of stories
of Cuban life, and the immigration to America. It shows how Cuban culture
has added to the diversity of the United States.
AADL Call Number: Y 305.868 Ho
The Japanese
American Family Album by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Oxford University Press: New York, 1996.
This book shares the lives of generatios of Japanese immigrants. It shares
what it was like to leave their homeland and journey to a place they could
never imagine. The trials and tribulations of these Japanese immigrants
are shared through stories, photographs, magazines and interviews, as
well as other material.
AADL Call Number: Y 305.895 Ho
The Arab Americans
by Alixa Naff
Chelsea House Publishers: New York, 1988.
This book discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Arabs. It
tells of the factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance
as an ethnic group in North America.
AADL Call Number: Y 305.892 Na
Bint Arab:
Arab and Arab American Women in the United States
by Evelyn Shakir
Praeger Publishers: Westport, CT, 1997.
These are the stories of the bint arab, the Arab woman, in the
United States. Weaving together a survey from the late 19th century to
the present, the focus is on each generation's traditional Arab values,
and those liberties of women in the West. Created is a unique and fascinating
portrait of an often-misunderstood group.
AADL Call Number: 305.488 Sh