A PIECE OF HOME
by Sonia Levitin
illustrated by Juan Wijngaard
Dial;ISBN: 0803716257;$14.99;1996

From Russia to America, each family member may take only one favorite possession; Gregor chooses the blanket Great-Grandmother made.

Suggested for ages 5 - 7
Subjects: America | Emigration | Immigration | Russian

BEYOND THE WESTERN SEA, BOOK ONE: THE ESCAPE FROM HOME
by  Avi
Orchard;ISBN: 0531095134;$18.95;1996

From the desperately poor Irish villages of the 19th century potato famine to the streets of London and Liverpool, from the misery of crossing the Atlantic in steerage to the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the lives of several young people and various villains intersect fatefully in this page-turning, cinematic drama.

Suggested for ages 12 - 16
Subjects: Emigration | Famines | Immigration | Industrial Revolution | Ireland | New England | Runaways

BEYOND THE WESTERN SEA; BOOK TWO: LORD KIRKLE'S MONEY
by  Avi
Orchard;ISBN: 0531088707;$18.95;1996

From the desperately poor Irish villages of the 19th century potato famine to the streets of London and Liverpool, from the misery of crossing the Atlantic in steerage to the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the lives of several young people and various villains intersect fatefully in this page-turning, cinematic drama.

Suggested for ages 12 - 14
Subjects: Emigration | Immigration | Ireland | New England | Runaways

HABIBI
by Naomi Shihab  Nye
Simon & Schuster;ISBN: 0689801491;$16;1997

Fourteen-year-old Liyana, a collector of "great first lines," takes us on a lyrical journey of discovery when her Palestinian father moves his American family to a small town outside of Jerusalem.

Suggested for ages 12 - 15
Subjects: Arabs | Emigration | Family life | Immigration | Israel | Jerusalem | Palestine