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Here are the results from the request for titles of trade books for a
thematic unit on immigration for grades 4-8:
American Immigration (European origins):
If Your Name Were Changed at Ellis Island by Ellen Levine
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
Journey to America and Silver Days by Sonia Levilin
The Night Journey by Kathryn Laship
A Russian Farewell by Leonard Everett Fisher
Voyage by Adele Geras
My Grandmother's Journey by Joh Cech
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Call Me Ruth by Marilyn Sachs
The Cat Who Escaped Steerage by Evelyn Mayerson
Alan and Naomi by Myron Levoy
My Antonia by Willa Cather
American Immigration (Latin America/Carib)
How Many Days to America by Eve Bunting
Grab Hands and Run by Frances Temple
Journey of the Sparrows by Fran Buss
My Name is Maria Isabel
American Immigration (Asian origins)
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
Homesick, My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs by Jaie Gelsen
Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka
In the Year of the Board and Jackie Robinson by Betty Bao Lord
Children of the River by Linda Crews
Migration within the United States (Westward expansion):
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Come Sing, Jimmy Jo by Katherine Paterson
Swing Down the Moon and Thunder Rolling in the Mountain by Scott
O'Dell
Acros Amerca on an Emigrant Train by Murphy
The Great American Goldrush by Blumberg
Prairie Songs
Beyond the Divide by Kathryn Lashy
Migration West
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Home Before Dark by Sue ellen Bridgers
Cassie's Journey by Brett Harvey
Other titles and resources:
Ellis Island Series by Nixon, Joan Lowery which includes Landof
Hopes, Land of Promise and Land of Dreams
Book Links - issues Jan, 92 and May, 92
New Kids on the Block:Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens by Janet Bode
A place to Belong by Joan Lowery Nixon
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