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314 pages ; 22 cm |
| What's it about? |
This collection features stories exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets of the immigrant experience, the characters decide their own answer to the question "where are you from?" -- adapted from jacket |
| What's in it? |
All the colors of goodbye / Nafiza Azad -- The wedding / Sara Farizan -- Where I'm from / Misa Sugiura -- Salvation and the sea / Lilliam Rivera -- Volviéndome / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- The trip / Sona Charaipotra -- The curandera and the alchemist / Maria E. Andreu -- A bigger tent / Maurene Goo -- First words / Varsha Bajaj -- Family over everything / Yamile Saied Méndez -- When I was white / Justine Larbalestier -- From Golden State / Isabel Quintero -- Hard to say / Sharon Morse -- Confessions of an Ecuadorkian / Zoraida Córdova -- Fleeing, leaving, moving / Adi Alsaid. |
| Helpful subjects! |
Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
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Family life -- Fiction. (DLC)sj 96005444
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Emigration and immigration -- Fiction. (DLC)sh 85042782
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Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690 |
| It's a special thing! |
Young adult fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Young adult works. (OCoLC)fst01726790
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Short stories.
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Young adult fiction.
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Short stories.
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| More people who helped! |
Alsaid, Adi, editor, author.
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Azad, Nafiza, author.
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Farizan, Sara, author.
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Sugiura, Misa, author.
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Rivera, Lilliam, author.
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Johnson, Alaya Dawn, 1982- author.
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Charaipotra, Sona, author.
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Andreu, Maria E., author.
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Goo, Maurene, author.
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Bajaj, Varsha, author.
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Méndez, Yamile Saied, author.
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Larbalestier, Justine, author.
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Quintero, Isabel, author.
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Morse, Sharon (Young adult author), author.
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Córdova, Zoraida, author.
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| Other titles to try! |
15 stories about immigration and finding home |
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Come on in : fifteen stories about immigration and finding home |
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Fifteen stories about immigration and finding home |
| Special numbers! |
9781335146496 (hardcover) |
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1335146490 (hardcover) |
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