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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York City where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: TEEN FIC SYL Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Veronica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body"--
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-- Breathe & count back from 10[2022]., Adolescent, Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC SYL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body"--Provided by publisher.
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[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F BRO Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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 irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play. So when Annie lands an impressive role in the production of The King and I, she's thrilled...until she starts to hear grumbles from her mostly white classmates that she only got the part because it's an Asian play with Asian characters. Is this all people see when they see her? Is this the only kind of success they'll let her have--one that they can tear down or use race to belittle? Disheartened but determined, Annie channels her hurt into a new dream: showing everyone what she's made of"--From the publisher's web site.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HISTORICAL F MAF Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's 2003, several months since the US officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Tensions are high, 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. She's too busy drowning in her own troubles to find the time to deal with bigots. Shadi is named for joy, but she's haunted by sorrow. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has mysteriously dropped out of her life. And then, of course, there's the small matter of the heart. It's broken. Shadi tries to navigate her crumbling world by soldiering through, saying nothing. She devours her own pain, each day retreating farther and farther inside herself until finally, one day, everything changes. She explodes"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC MAF Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the wake of 9/11, Shadi, a child of Muslim immigrants, tries to navigate her crumbling world of death, heartbreak, and bigotry in silence, until finally everything changes.
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[2021]., General, Make Me A World Call No: Young Adult Fic ELH Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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 under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen, the name her parents didn't give her at birth: Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might just be more real than Nima knows. And more hungry. And the life Nima has, the one she keeps wishing were someone else's...she might have to fight for it with a fierceness she never knew she had."--
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2022., Make Me a World Call No: 811 .6 Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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 under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen, the name her parents didn't give her at birth: Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might just be more real than Nima knows. And more hungry. And the life Nima has, the one she keeps wishing were someone else's...she might have to fight for it with a fierceness she never knew she had."-- Publisher's description.
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By Lo, Malinda2021., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: HISTORICAL FIC LO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.
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By Ko, Lisa2017., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: REALISTIC F KO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This emotionally harrowing debut novel that explores assimilation and loss, immigration and homeland, independence and connection.
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2019., Adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: Historical Fic Mathieu Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1986, siblings Elena and Joaquin Finney struggle with their manipulative, alcoholic mother and look for any way to escape Mariposa Island. Elena starts babysitting for a visiting family and sneaking off with a new boyfriend while Joaquin dreams of finding his estranged father in California. Meanwhile, their mother reflects on life in the 1950s as the daughter of wealthy white Cubans who sent her to the United States during the Cuban revolution where she experienced the turmoil of being an outcast immigrant in Texas. After Joaquin makes a startling discovery, the lies and secrets that have defined their family come to light.
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2004, c2003., Houghton Mifflin Call No: MENTAL HEALTH Fic Lah Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
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2004, c2003., Houghton Mifflin Call No: Young adult FIC LAHIRI Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
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2003., Houghton Mifflin Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
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2019., Mariner Books Call No: Realistic FIC Lahiri Edition: Second Mariner Books edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Gogol is ashamed of his Indian name and when he goes off to Yale, he has it legally changed to Nikhil and throughout his life he feels stricken with guilt and outcast.
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By Lim, Rebecca[2021]., Delcorte Press Call No: REALISTIC F LIM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 smartest boy at school despite struggling with his English and understands her in a way nobody has lately. Both of them dream of escaping and together they come up with a plan to take an entrance exam for a selective school far from home. But when tragedy strikes, it will take all of Wen's resilience and tiger strength to get herself and Henry through the storm that follows.
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By Lim, Rebecca[2021]., Adolescent, Delacore Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Wen Zhou, a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents, feels trapped by her parents' high expectations and ideas for her future. So when she befriends Henry Xiao, who is also a first-generation child of immigrants, she finds a kindred spirit and someone who truly understands her. They decide to apply for a selective school far from home, but when tragedy rocks Henry's family, Henry becomes reclusive and shut off from the outside world. Wen commits herself to helping her friend, no matter the repercussions from her father, and learns to find her voice.
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By Rum, Etaf2020., Harper Perennial Call No: Realistic Fic Rum Edition: First Harper Perennial edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1990 Palestine, seventeen-year-old Isra is given in marriage to a man she doesn't know and they move to Brooklyn. There she struggles to earn the approval of her mother-in-law Fareeda and abusive husband Adam, and gives birth to four girls, instead of sons. In 2008 Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra's daughter, is pushed by her grandmother to choose a suitor but Deya wants to go to college. Fate intervenes and Deya learns shocking secrets that cause her to question her family and her past; what Deya learns changes her future forever.