Recommended Readings
Pre-School – 4 th Grade
FICTION
- Bunting, Eve. How Many Days to America? Houghton-Mifflin, 1988.
- Garland, Sherry. The Lotus Seed. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1993.
- Gundisch, Karin. How I Became an American. Publishing Group West, 2001
- Hest, Amy. When Jessie Came Across the Sea. Candlewick, 1997.
- Hoffman, Mary. The Color of Home. Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2002.
- Jimenez, Francisco. La Mariposa . Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
- Partridge, Elizabeth. Oranges on Golden Mountain. Puffin, 2003.
- Recorvits, Helen. My Name is Yoon. Frances Foster Books, 2003.
- Say, Allen. Grandfather’s Journey. Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
- Tarbescu, Edith and Lydia Dabcovich. Annushka’s Voyage. Clarion Books, 1998.
- Woodruff, Elvira . The Memory Coat. Scholastic Press, 1999.
NONFICTION
- Levine, Ellen. If Your Name was Changed at Ellis Island. Scholastic Paperbacks, 1994.
- Maestro, Betsy. Coming to America: The Story of Immigration. Scholastic Press, 1996.
MEDIA
- Moving to America . 100% Educational Videos 19 minutes
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5th thru 9th Grades
FICTION
- Auch, M.J. Ashes of Roses. Henry Holt & Co., 2002.
- Bode, Janet. The Colors of Freedom. Franklin Watts, 1999.
- Ellis, Deborah. The Breadwinner. Groundwood Books, 2001.
- Ellis, Deborah. Parvana’s Journey. Groundwood Books, 2003.
- Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi. Simon Pulse, 1999.
- Ryan, Pam Munoz. Esperanza Rising. Blue Sky Press, 2002
- Veciana- Suarez, Ana. Flight to Freedom. Scholastic, 2002.
- Woodruff, Elvira. The Orphan of Ellis Island. Scholastic, 2000.
NONFICTION
- Coan, Peter. Ellis Island Interviews. Facts on File, 1998.
- De Capua, Sarah. How People Immigrate. Children’s Press, 2004.
- Ellis Island : Echoes From a Nation’s Past. Aperture, 1989.
- Hoobler, Dorothy. We are Americans: Voices of the Immigrant Experience. Scholastic, 2003.
- Oppenheim, Joanne. Dear Miss Breed. Scholastic, 2006.
- Stanley, Jerry. I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Interment. Crown Books, 1996.
- Yoo, Paula . Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds. Lee and Low Books, 2005.
MEDIA
- The New Americans: Finding Community. Custom Flix, 63 minutes.
- What is an American ? Pyramid Films, 22 minutes.
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10th Grade through Adult
FICTION
- Alvarez, Julia. When the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Penguin Books, 1991.
- Flores, Carlos Nicolas. Our House on Hueco. Texas Tech UP, 2006.
- Gallo, Donald R. First Crossing: Stories about Teen Immigrants. Candlewick, 2004.
- Hidier, Tanuja Desai. Born Confused. Scholastic, 2002.
- Gillan, Maria Mazziotti and Jennifer Gillan eds. Growing Up Ethnic in America. Penguin, 1999.
- Na, An. A Step from Heaven. Penguin, 2001.
- Otsuka, Julie . When the Emperor was Divine . Anchor, 2003.
- Rodriguez, Abraham. The Boy Without a Flag. Milkweed, 1992.
- Tyler, Anne. Digging to America. Knopf, 2006
SHORT STORIES
- Christie, John. S. and Jose B. Gonzalez. Latino Boom. An Anthology of U. S. Latino Literature. Pearson, 2006.
NONFICTION
- Ahmed, Farah. The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky. Simon, 2005.
- Cuadros, Paul. Home on the Field. Rayo, 2006.
- Berger, Roni. Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories. Haworth Press, 2004.
- Conly, Ellen. The Chosen Shore: Stories of Immigrants. University of Carolina Press, 2004.
- Daniels, Roger . Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. Harper Perennial, 2000.
- Daniels, Roger. Guarding the Golden Door. Hill and Wang, 2004.
- Lemasolai, Joseph. Facing the Lion. National Geographic Children’s Books, 2003.
- Morrison, Joan . American Mosaic. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993.
- Nazario, Sonia. Enrique’s Journey. Random House, 2006.
- Santiago, Esmeralda. When I Was a Puerto Rican. Vintage, 1994.
- Schell, Debbie M. U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Q & A. Sphinx Publishing, 2003.
- Urrea, Luis Alberto . The Devil’s Highway. Little, Brown, & Company, 2004.
- Urrea, Luis Alberto. Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life. University of Arizona Press, 1998.
- Wernick, Allan. U.S. Immigration and Citizenship. Prima Lifestyles, 2002.
- Wheeler, Thomas. The Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming an American. Penguin, 1992.
- Wilkes, Stephen . Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom. W.W. Norton, 2006.
- Zolberg, Aristide. A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America. Harvard University Press, 2004.
MEDIA
- America , America. 168 minutes, Warner Home Video, 1994.
- El. Norte. 139 minutes, Cinecom International. 1984.
- Ellis Island . 150 minutes, A & E Home Video, 1997.
- Farmingville. 78 minutes, New Video Group, 2004.
- O ur House in Havana. 57 minutes, 2000.
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. 121 minutes, Sony, 2006.
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