I wish you knew by Azua Kramer, Jackie 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 530542 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-7   
Lexile: 610 AD

Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Undocumented immigrants - Fiction Children of undocumented immigrants - Fiction Latinos (U.S.) - Fiction Family life - Fiction School stories

Summary: When Estrella's father has to leave because he wasn't born here, like her, she wishes people knew the way it affects her. A story about depression, divided families, and the importance of community in the midst of uncertainty.

Leavers : a novel by Ko, Lisa 

Paperback(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018)

BTSB #: 527587 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
RC: 5.6 9-12 Lexile: 870

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Children of undocumented immigrants - Fiction Mother-son relationship - Fiction Undocumented immigrants - Fiction Deportation - Fiction Self-realization - Fiction

Summary: One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away.

Sky at our feet by Hashimi, Nadia 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P04086 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Multicultural Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Undocumented immigrants - Fiction Children of undocumented immigrants - Fiction Afghan Americans - Fiction

Summary: A young boy fears that his mother, an illegal immigrant from Afghanistan, has been deported and he runs away to New York City to get help from his aunt only to end up in the hospital where he meets a new friend, Max, a daring girl who helps him escape the hospital to continue his city adventures.