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

ASK ME NO QUESTIONS
by Marina Budhos
Ginee Seo;ISBN: 9781416903512;$16.95;2006

In a timely, realistic story, fourteen-year-old Nadira strives to keep her illegal immigrant family from Bangladesh together after 9/11 when Muslim registration laws led to her father's incarceration and their near deportation.

Suggested for ages 11 - 15
Subjects: Family life | High schools | Immigration | New York (N.Y.) | September 11, 2001

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

FARAWAY HOME
by Jane Kurtz
illustrated by E.B. Lewis
Harcourt Brace;ISBN: 0152000364;$16;2000

Evocative, realistic watercolor paintings join a lyrical text in this story of family ties, memory, longing and the meaning of home as Desta and her father discuss his impending journey to visit family in Ethiopia.

Suggested for ages 5 - 8
Subjects: Ethiopia | Fathers and daughters | Immigration | Separation

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

LA LÍNEA
by Ann Jaramillo
Deborah Brodie;ISBN: 9781596431546;$16.95;2006

Fifteen-year-old Miguel and his sister Elena leave their Mexican village and begin a dangerous journey to cross the border illegally and join their parents in California.

Suggested for ages 14 - 18
Subjects: Immigration