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1) Soccer Sam
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sam's cousin from Mexico comes for an extended visit and teaches Sam and all the second graders to play soccer.
2) Illegal
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
xiii, 251 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Duncan Tonatiuh delivers an expertly written and illustrated title that lays bare the realities of being undocumented in the United States. The narrative follows Juan an indigenous Mixtec who migrates from Mexico to the United States. The accordion style format of Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight is an homage to Mixtec literature, of which few books survived the Spanish conquest, perhaps the most famous being the Codex Nuttall. We meet Juan in his...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful woman, a powerful Mexican rancher, and an exotic new breed of cattle come to John Slaughter's San Bernardino Valley ranch, along with the prospect of making a small fortune. While Slaughter's men are out keeping the peace in Tombstone, an act of betrayal turns up the heat under his own roof, and a killer is stalking Slaughter's wealthy Mexican guest. Indians suddenly savagely attack Slaughter's ranch, but it is only the first shot in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In today's uncertain world, many families are leaving their home countries and seeking a better life in the United States. Immigrants from Mexico and Central America explores the stories of two boys who left their home countries to find a better life in the United States. Follow their journeys to find out why they left their homelands and understand the challenges they faced in moving to a new country."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the first picture book written by a DACA dreamer Areli Morales tells her own powerful and vibrant immigration story. When Areli was just a baby, her mama and papa moved from Mexico to New York with her brother, Alex, to make a better life for the family - and when she was in kindergarten, they sent for her, too. Everything in New York was different. Gone were the Saturdays at Abuela's house, filled with cousins and sunshine. Instead, things were...
Publisher
Laguna Films
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 71 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando su pueblo natal de Sabinas Hidalgo ya no puede proveer mas que frijoles y torillas, Macario, un campesino mexicano sueña con cruzar la frontera en búsqueda de trabajo y una vida mas digna para su esposa. Nisiquiera la intervención divina podrá salvar a Macario de su destino, como lo indica el titulo de la película.
A Mexican peasant finds himself drawn uncontrollably to thoughts of crossing the border to find work and a more dignified...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
112 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the experiences of Mexican citizens who immigrate to America legally and illegally. The reader's choices reveal historical and modern details about where they settled, the jobs they found, and the difficulties they faced"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Migrants, refugees and deportees live through harrowing situations, yet not much is widely known about their experiences. Politicians and commentators mischaracterize and demonize, herald border crises, and speculate about who people are and how they live. This book reflects a desire to communicate their perspectives and experiences. Each one of them goes through the emotional and psychological intensity of alternating motion and stillness. They...
12) Farmingville
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary film about the next group of immigrants, the Mexicans, that are following in our long history of immigration. It looks at the people of Farmingville, New York, and at how they are dealing with the influx of about 1,500 Mexican workers.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A child dreams of a life without borders after he and his parents are forced to leave their home during the Mexican Repatriation."--
Publisher
Distributed by Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A stranger in a strange land, Bolivar De La Cruz has just crossed the border from Mexico in search of a better life. In contrast, restless, club-hopping second-generation immigrant Lola has the American Dream at her fingertips but feels like a stranger in her own life, forever caught between appeasing her old-world mother and following her heart. On the surface, despite their shared ethnic heritage, Bolivar and Lola have little in common. But when...
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