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Author: Marcia Argueta Mickelson Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ® ISBN: 1728432286 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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A Pura Belpré Honor Book An immigrant teen fights for her family, her future, and the place she calls home. In the spring of 2018, Guatemalan American high school senior Milagros "Millie" Vargas knows her life is about to change. She has lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, ever since her parents sought asylum there when she was a baby. Now a citizen, Millie devotes herself to school and caring for her younger siblings while her mom works as a housekeeper for the wealthy Wheeler family. With college on the horizon, Millie is torn between attending her dream school and staying close to home, where she knows she's needed. She is disturbed by what's happening to asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, but she doesn't see herself as an activist or a change-maker. She's just trying to take care of her own family. Then Mr. Wheeler, a U.S. Senate candidate, mentions Millie's achievements in a campaign speech about "deserving" immigrants. It doesn't take long for people to identify Millie's family and place them at the center of a statewide immigration debate. Faced with journalists, trolls, anonymous threats, and the Wheelers' good intentions—especially those of Mr. Wheeler's son, Charlie—Millie must confront the complexity of her past, the uncertainty of her future, and her place in the country that she believed was home.
Author: Marcia Argueta Mickelson Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ® ISBN: 1728432286 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
A Pura Belpré Honor Book An immigrant teen fights for her family, her future, and the place she calls home. In the spring of 2018, Guatemalan American high school senior Milagros "Millie" Vargas knows her life is about to change. She has lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, ever since her parents sought asylum there when she was a baby. Now a citizen, Millie devotes herself to school and caring for her younger siblings while her mom works as a housekeeper for the wealthy Wheeler family. With college on the horizon, Millie is torn between attending her dream school and staying close to home, where she knows she's needed. She is disturbed by what's happening to asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, but she doesn't see herself as an activist or a change-maker. She's just trying to take care of her own family. Then Mr. Wheeler, a U.S. Senate candidate, mentions Millie's achievements in a campaign speech about "deserving" immigrants. It doesn't take long for people to identify Millie's family and place them at the center of a statewide immigration debate. Faced with journalists, trolls, anonymous threats, and the Wheelers' good intentions—especially those of Mr. Wheeler's son, Charlie—Millie must confront the complexity of her past, the uncertainty of her future, and her place in the country that she believed was home.
Author: Afrouz Tavakoli Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1525559303 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 146
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How Will I Belong is the journey of a woman as she migrates from Iran in the aftermath of Sept. 11 2001 to Montreal, Canada with her husband and two young sons. The book is an honest, humorous and deeply moving account of modern’s day immigration: how does one leave a place to which they have belonged through nationality, family, tradition and culture, and one does struggle to redefine and reposition oneself in order to belong to an entirely new world. This book is a universal tale of immigration at a time when the world is witnessing an unprecedented influx of people moving westward. It is an important contribution to our understanding of how immigrants arrive and how they make sense of themselves to eventually belong.
Author: Rena Cherry Brown Publisher: ISBN: 9781421890210 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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A Loblolly Tree is removed from the only home he has ever known and sent on a journey where he faces fear, uncertainty and physical transformation, all the time wondering where he belongs and where his new home will be. After a difficult adventure, he arrives at his new home, learning he was never really alone, and discovering new friends, new purpose and new opportunities
Author: J. Daniels Publisher: JD Publishing, LLC ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
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A steamy best friend's older brother, standalone romance from New York Times bestselling author, J. Daniels. When Mia Corelli returns to Alabama for a summer of fun with her childhood best friend, Tessa, there's only one thing keeping her on edge. One person that she’d do anything to avoid. Benjamin Kelly. World’s biggest d*ckhead. Mia hates him with a fury and has no desire to ever see him again. When she decides to start her summer off with a bang and finally give away her v-card, she unknowingly hands it over to the one guy that excelled at making her life miserable, learning a valuable lesson in the process. Always get the name of the guy you’re going home with. Ben can’t get the girl he spent one night with out of his head. When she leaves him the next morning, he thinks he’ll never see her again. Until he sees her lounging by the pool with his sister. Mia is determined to hate Ben, even though she can’t forget him. Ben is determined to prove he’s not the same guy he used to be. What happens when the one person you wish never existed becomes the one person you can’t imagine being without?
Author: Anita Sethi Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472983947 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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Winner of the 2021 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Non-fiction Shortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize "I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had to report what had happened, not only for myself but to help stop anyone else having to go through what I did. I knew I could not remain silent, or still, I could not stop walking through the world." A journey of reclamation through the natural landscapes of the North, brilliantly exploring identity, nature, place and belonging. Beautifully written and truly inspiring, I Belong Here heralds a powerful and refreshing new voice in nature writing. Anita Sethi was on a journey through Northern England when she became the victim of a race-hate crime. The crime was a vicious attack on her right to exist in a place on account of her race. After the event Anita experienced panic attacks and anxiety. A crushing sense of claustrophobia made her long for wide open spaces, to breathe deeply in the great outdoors. She was intent on not letting her experience stop her travelling freely and without fear. The Pennines - known as 'the backbone of Britain' runs through the north and also strongly connects north with south, east with west - it's a place of borderlands and limestone, of rivers and 'scars', of fells and forces. The Pennines called to Anita with a magnetic force; although a racist had told her to leave, she felt drawn to further explore the area she regards as her home, to immerse herself deeply in place. Anita's journey through the natural landscapes of the North is one of reclamation, a way of saying that this is her land too and she belongs in the UK as a brown woman, as much as a white man does. Her journey transforms what began as an ugly experience of hate into one offering hope and finding beauty after brutality. Anita transforms her personal experience into one of universal resonance, offering a call to action, to keep walking onwards. Every footstep taken is an act of persistence. Every word written against the rising tide of hate speech, such as this book, is an act of resistance.
Author: Suzanne K. Whang Publisher: ISBN: 9780692161210 Category : Languages : en Pages : 72
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Yesterday, Seth was a star engineering student. Today, he roams the halls of a state mental hospital. His only crime is having Asperger's Syndrome, which colors his world brilliant but people dull. The university he attends experienced a deadly bombing a year ago, and the community is still reeling from the shock of what they experienced. When one student misinterprets something Seth says and reports him to the administration, it sets off a series of events that threatens to ruin his life. Despite his social challenges, he must fight to regain his good standing or risk losing everything he has worked so hard to achieve.
Author: Dhir Dayal Publisher: Archway Publishing ISBN: 1665733853 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 252
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It’s almost dreamy to study in a prosperous North American university, where they welcome foreign students and enable them to become sponges for knowledge. North America offers great promise for study abroad students from developing societies. The students not only gain knowledge and learn about new traditions, but they form enduring friendships. Yes, I Belong Here traces the life of author Dhir Dayal, an international student who traveled abroad for higher studies and earned three graduate degrees. He conveys his serendipitous experiences while pursuing his studies in North America. Dayal exposes his life to future foreign students who might benefit in charting their journey in an environment radically different from their motherland. In this memoir, Dayal discusses what American university life was like for him, a student who had grown up in a small village in India. He shares the ups and downs, the joys and challenges, and the expected and unexpected as he charted his own course for educational achievements.
Author: Marcia Argueta Mickelson
Author: Marcia Argueta Mickelson
Author: Afrouz Tavakoli
Author: Rena Cherry Brown
Author: Cheri J. Meiners
Author: J. Daniels
Author: Anita Sethi
Author: Aileen Urquhart
Author: Suzanne K. Whang
Author: Aileen Urquhart
Author: Dhir Dayal