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Picture books about kids and families who move to a new country, learn a new language and start a new school. Teachers use them to help immigrant kids see themselves, and to help everyone else understand.
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Home Is in Between
Mitali Perkins
Shanti moves from India to America and finds her home is somewhere between the two.
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Dreamers
Yuyi Morales
The author's own story of coming from Mexico with her baby son and finding her way through the public library.
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Where Are You From?
Yamile Saied Méndez
A girl keeps getting asked where she's from and asks her grandfather. His answer is about family, not a place.
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Islandborn
Junot Díaz
Lola left her island as a baby and has to draw it for school, so she asks everyone in her neighborhood what they remember.
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I'm New Here
Anne Sibley O'Brien
Three kids from Guatemala, Korea and Somalia start at an American school and find ways to belong.
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My Two Blankets
Irena Kobald
A girl who fled war wraps herself in the old language, until a friend helps her weave a new one.
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Grandfather's Journey
Allen Say
The author's grandfather moves from Japan to California and is homesick for each place when he's in the other. Won the Caldecott Medal.
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A Different Pond
Bao Phi
A boy goes fishing before dawn with his father, a Vietnamese refugee, for food, not fun. Caldecott Honor.
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Here I Am
Patti Kim
A wordless picture book about a Korean boy's first months in New York City.
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Danbi Leads the School Parade
Anna Kim
Danbi has just come from Korea, and nothing at her new American school is familiar yet.
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Mango, Abuela, and Me
Meg Medina
Mia's grandmother moves in and speaks only Spanish, so Mia and a parrot named Mango help them learn each other's language.