Kids Speak Out About Immigration

Kids Speak Out About Immigration
Author: Christine Schwab
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1731640870

Book Features: • Ages 6-9, Grades 1-4, Guided Reading Level S, Lexile 650L • 24 pages, 7 1⁄2 inches x 10 inches • Features vibrant, full-color photographs • Includes a vocabulary list, review questions, glossary, index, and extension activity included • Reading/teaching tips included Speaking Up: In Kids Speak Out About Immigration, your child will read about three courageous youth activists and how they used their voices to support of immigrant and refugee rights by giving speeches, teaching others, and contacting politicians. Getting Involved: Along with sharing real-life stories of current young immigrant and refugee rights activists and helping 1st- through 4th-graders understand immigration, this 24-page book includes a list of 10 practical ways kids can take action. Social Studies Reader: Supporting the C3 Framework State Standards, this book features intriguing social issues stories and builds reading comprehension with a vocabulary list, reading tips, teaching tips, review questions, and an extension activity. Empowering Kids: Part of the Kids Speak Out series, this inspiring book highlights youth who are standing up for immigrant rights. Each title in the series shares real stories of kids who are changing the world and lists 10 ways to join the cause. Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Kids Speak Out About Immigration

Kids Speak Out About Immigration
Author: Chris Schwab
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre:
ISBN: 1731640102

SPEAK OUT ABOUT IMMIGRATION: Learn about some incredible kids who had the courage to speak out about the rights of immigrants and what you can do to join them! SOCIAL STUDIES READER FOR CHILDREN: Immigrants around the world move to new places seeking peace and opportunity. How can we support them? We can speak out! This book provides an introduction to immigration and highlights youth advocates around the world. INCLUDES: This 24-page book for grades 1 to 4 includes a glossary, after-reading questions, and an extension activity. BENEFITS: As they learn about kids who had the courage to speak out and make a positive difference, readers will be inspired to speak out, too! Each book includes a list of 10 ways for the reader to get involved in these important issues and help change the world. WHY ROURKE: Since 1980, we’ve been committed to bringing out the best non-fiction books to help you bring out the best in your young learners. Our carefully crafted topics encourage all students who are "learning to read" and "reading to learn"!

The New Kids

The New Kids
Author: Brooke Hauser
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1439163308

Includes a reading group guide (p. [311-324]).

The Long Way to a New Land

The Long Way to a New Land
Author: Joan Sandin
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1986-05-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780064441001

"We will go to America!" It is 1868, and Carl Erik's family faces starvation in Sweden. As their hopes fade, they must endure a journey over land and sea to reach a better life in a new country thousands of miles away.

We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults

We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults
Author: Susan Kuklin
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0763697516

With refreshing candor, photos and interviews usher us into the lives of eleven undocumented young people bravely speaking out. “Maybe next time they hear someone railing about how terrible immigrants are, they'll think about me. I’m a real person.” Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives: they are not U.S. citizens. They came from Colombia, Mexico, Ghana, Independent Samoa, and Korea. They came seeking education, fleeing violence, and escaping poverty. All have heartbreaking and hopeful stories about leaving their homelands and starting a new life in America. And all are weary of living in the shadows. We Are Here to Stay is a very different book than it was intended to be when originally slated for a 2017 release, illustrated with Susan Kuklin’s gorgeous full-color portraits. Since the last presidential election and the repeal of DACA, it is no longer safe for these young adults to be identified in photographs or by name. Their photographs have been replaced with empty frames, and their names are represented by first initials. We are honored to publish these enlightening, honest, and brave accounts that encourage open, thoughtful conversation about the complexities of immigration — and the uncertain future of immigrants in America.

The Book of Isaias

The Book of Isaias
Author: Daniel Connolly
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250083060

"In a green town in the middle of America, a bright 18-year-old Hispanic student named Isaias Ramos sets out on the journey to college. Isaias, who passed a prestigious national calculus test as a junior and leads the quiz bowl team, is the hope of Kingsbury High in Memphis, a school where many students have difficulty reading. But Kingsbury's dysfunction, expensive college fees, and forms printed in a language that's foreign to his parents are all obstacles in the way of getting him to a university. Isaias also doubts the value of college and says he might go to work in his family's painting business after high school, despite his academic potential. Is Isaias making a rational choice? Or does he simply hope to avoid pain by deferring dreams that may not come to fruition? This is what journalist Daniel Connolly attempts to uncover in The Book of Isaias as he follows Isaias, peers into a tumultuous final year of high school, and, eventually, shows how adults intervene in the hopes of changing Isaias' life. Mexican immigration has brought the proportion of Hispanics in the nation's youth population to roughly one in four. Every day, children of immigrants make decisions about their lives that will shape our society and economy for generations.

The Distance Between Us

The Distance Between Us
Author: Reyna Grande
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451661800

In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.

Parenting with an Accent

Parenting with an Accent
Author: Masha Rumer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0807007307

A blend of on-the-ground reporting and personal anecdotes that weaves a tapestry of the immigrant experience, multicultural parenting, and identity in the US Through her own stories and interviews with other immigrant families, award-winning journalist Masha Rumer paints a realistic and compassionate picture of what it’s like for immigrant parents raising a child in America while honoring their cultural identities. Parenting with an Accent speaks to immigrant and non-immigrant readers alike, incorporating a diverse collection of voices and experiences to provide an intimate look at the lives of many different immigrant families across the country. With a compelling blend of empirical data, humor, and on-the-ground reportage, Rumer presents interviews with experts on various aspects of parenting as an immigrant, including the challenges of acculturation, bilingualism strategies, and childcare. She visits a children’s Amharic class at an Ethiopian church in New York, a California vegetable farm, a Persian immersion school, and more. Through these stories, she opens a window to a world of parenting unique to multicultural families. Immigrant readers will appreciate Rumer’s gentle message about the kind of ethnic and cultural ambivalence that is born of having roots planted in many different soils, while in these pages non-immigrants get a fly-on-the-wall view of the unique experiences of newcomers. Deeply researched yet personal, Parenting with an Accent centers immigrants and their experiences in a new country—emphasizing how immigrants and their children remain an integral part of America’s story.

Passages to America

Passages to America
Author: Emmy E. Werner
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 1597976342

More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the "Guardian of the Western Gate," the detention center on Angel Island in California that was designed to keep Chinese immigrants out of the United States. Based on the oral histories of fifty children who came to the United States before 1950, this book chronicles their American odyssey against the backdrop of World Wars I and II, the rise and fall of Hitler's Third Reich, and the hardships of the Great Depression. Ranging in age from four to sixteen years old, the children hailed from Northern, Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe; the Middle East; and China. Across ethnic lines, the child immigrants' life stories tell a remarkable tale of human resilience. The sources of family and community support that they relied on, their educational aims and accomplishments, their hard work, and their optimism about the future are just as crucial today for the new immigrants of the twenty-first century. These personal narratives offer unique perspectives on the psychological experience of being an immigrant child and its impact on later development and well-being. They chronicle the joys and sorrows, the aspirations and achievements, and the challenges that these small strangers faced while becoming grown citizens.