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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
Why are some immigrants considered illegal? What happens to illegal immigrants after they are discovered in the United States? These questions and more are answered by this comprehensive look at a hot topic that is often debated on news programs and online. The accessible, objective text and full-color photographs give readers a balanced look at this complicated issue, and detailed sidebars provide additional information. Readers will benefit from...
4) Deportation
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
Deportation can be a frightening concept, especially for immigrants or people whose friends or relatives are from another country. Why do people get deported, and what happens to them after the deportation decision is made? The answers to these questions and more are found in this thorough examination of a topic that is often in the news. Comprehensive text and fact-filled sidebars, and vivid photographs enhance the reading experience.
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"A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights--the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the ... experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling America today: immigration"--Amazon.com.
7) Facing fear
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"Enrique is a U.S. citizen-but the rest of his family isn't. When he hears a rumor of a police raid, Enrique must face the possibility of being separated from his parents and sister"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she does make it to Bogotá, will she trade the facts of her father and life in Colombia for the distant vision of her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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"Jason has just learned that his Afghan mother has been living illegally in the United States since his father was killed in Afghanistan ... when he sees his mother being escorted from her workplace by two officers, Jason feels completely alone. He boards a train with the hope of finding his aunt in New York City, but as soon as he arrives in Penn Station, the bustling city makes him wonder if he's overestimated what he can do"--Amazon.com.
12) Flood tide
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
511 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
13) Dark water
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Living in a cottage on her uncle's southern California avocado ranch since her parent's messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker, and is trapped with him when wildfires approach his makeshift forest home.
14) Hard row
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"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the North Carolina countryside"--Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
"The movement of people--what Americans call 'immigration' and the rest of the world calls 'migration'--is among the defining issues of our time. Technology and information crosses countries and continents at blistering speed. Corporations thrive on being multinational and polyglot. Yet the world's estimated 244 million total migrant population, particularly those deemed 'illegal' by countries and societies, are locked in a chaotic and circular debate...
16) Sanctuary
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their T Luna in the sanctuary state of California.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Jasmine de los Santos has always done whats expected of her. Shes studied hard, made her Filipino immigrant parents proud and is ready to reap the rewards in the form of a full college scholarship to the school of her dreams. And then everything shatters. Her parents are forced to reveal the truth: their visas expired years ago. Her entire family is illegal. That means no scholarships, maybe no college at all and the very real threat of deportation....
18) Amnesty: a novel
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"Danny--formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam--is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life. But then one morning, Danny...
19) Return to sender
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Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
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