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Reader's Corner for Children and Teens: The Immigrant & Refugee Experience

Book lists and resources curated by the Children's Department.

Immigrant & Refugee Experience Fiction

I Pledge Allegiance by Pat Mora; Libby Martinez; Patrice Barton (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780307931818
Publication Date: 2014-04-22
Escape from Syria by Samya Kullab; Jackie Roche (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781770859821
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
ISBN: 9780544612310
Publication Date: 2016-05-03
Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
ISBN: 9780399546440
Publication Date: 2017-04-11
I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Lee White (Illustrator); Marjorie Agosin
ISBN: 9781416953449
Publication Date: 2014-03-04
The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
ISBN: 9781481457514
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Illegal by Eoin Colfer; Andrew Donkin; Giovanni Rigano (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781492662143
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Refugee by Alan Gratz
ISBN: 9780545880831
Publication Date: 2017-07-25
Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
ISBN: 9780062881687
Publication Date: 2020-03-31
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN: 9781419705830
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago; Rafael Yockteng (Illustrator); Elisa Amado (Translator)
ISBN: 9781554987412
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj
ISBN: 9780525517245
Publication Date: 2019-08-27
One Good Thing about America by Ruth Freeman; Kathrin Honesta (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780823436958
Publication Date: 2017-03-21
We Came to America by Faith Ringgold
ISBN: 9780517709474
Publication Date: 2016-05-10
Mama's Nightingale by Edwidge Danticat; Leslie Staub (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525428091
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525555452
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt de la Peña; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399549045
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Me and My Fear by Francesca Sanna
ISBN: 9781911171539
Publication Date: 2018-09-11
My Beautiful Birds by Suzanne Del Rizzo (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781772780109
Publication Date: 2017-03-08
Lubna and Pebble by Daniel Egnéus (Illustrator); Wendy Meddour
ISBN: 9780525554165
Publication Date: 2019-03-05

Immigrant & Refugee Experience Non-Fiction

The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham
ISBN: 9781984829771
Publication Date: 2019-08-20
Stormy Seas by Mary Beth Leatherdale; Eleanor Shakespeare (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781554518951
Publication Date: 2017-04-11
We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
ISBN: 9780316523646
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Hamid's Story by Andy Glynne
ISBN: 9781515814139
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana; Abigail Pesta
ISBN: 9780062470140
Publication Date: 2017-05-16
America Border Culture Dreamer by Wendy Ewald
ISBN: 9780316484954
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
No Steps Behind by Shiella Witanto (Illustrator); Jeff Gottesfeld
ISBN: 9781939547552
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
First Generation by Sandra Neil Wallace; Rich Wallace; Agata Nowicka (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780316515245
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
ISBN: 9781481463713
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
The Unwanted by Don Brown
ISBN: 9781328810151
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Denied, Detained, Deported by Ann Bausum
ISBN: 9781426303326
Publication Date: 2009-04-14
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson (Illustrator); Omar Mohamed; Iman Geddy (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525553915
Publication Date: 2020-04-14
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
ISBN: 9780823440559
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
What Is a Refugee? by Elise Gravel
ISBN: 9780593120057
Publication Date: 2019-09-24