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61) The grief keeper
Author
Publisher
Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.
64) Call me Ruth
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a Russian immigrant family, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement.
Author
Publisher
An Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie, in a picture book that evokes an actual silent movie.
68) Land of promise
Author
Series
Ellis Island trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.
73) Land of dreams
Author
Series
Ellis Island trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
In 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristen travels with her family from Sweden to a new life in Minnesota, where she finds herself frustrated by the restrictions placed on what girls of her age are expected or allowed to do.
78) The great wheel
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
