These books for middle grades tell a diverse range of stories, from newcomers recently arriving to the U.S. to families separated by immigration proceedings.
These books tell the stories of the long, arduous, and sometimes dangerous journeys that children and families make when setting out for a new land and home.
Every year, roughly 50,000 unaccompanied minors arrive at the US/Mexico border to present themselves for asylum or related visas.
After passing a city museum many times, a boy finally decides to go in. He passes wall after wall of artwork until he sees a painting that makes him stop and ponder.
Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite fantasy role-playing game, than face his father’s increasing restrictions and his mother’s fading presence.
Ana and her mother have been living out of their car ever since her militant father became one of the FBI’s most wanted. Leandro has struggled with debilitating anxiety since his family fled Cuba on a perilous raft.
The sky is still dark when a young boy leaves home for school. He has a long path ahead: nine kilometers — over five-and-a-half miles — through the mountains and rain forests of Chile. But the boy doesn’t mind.
“My name is Earth / but people call me Little Earth.” In the fourth installment of their award-winning Madre Tierra / Mother Earth series of trilingual picture books about the natural world, Jorge Argueta and Felipe Ugalde Alcántara coll