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First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants

10 best books like First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants (Donald R. Gallo): Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am, The Stone Goddess, 13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen, Blue Jasmine, Guys Write for Guys Read, Necessary Roughness, Novio Boy: A Play, The Brimstone Journals, The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, What They Found: Love on 145th Street

Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am
AuthorHarry Mazer
ISBN1416938958
Ben has always had it pretty easy--with no acting experience, he landed the lead in his high school musical, and he's dating the prettiest girl in school. Haunted by memories of 9/11, he makes the decision to enlist in the army--with devastating consequences. Somehow nobody ever thought Ben would be...
The Stone Goddess
AuthorMinfong Ho
ISBN0439381983
Award-winning author Minfong Ho tells the story of Nakri's struggles during the Communist takeover of Cambodia in the 1980s.

Twelve-year-old Nakri's beloved home in Cambodia is shattered when the nation's capital is overrun by government rebels. Her family is forced to flee, and she and...
13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen
AuthorJames Howe
ISBN1416926844
"If thirteen is supposed to be an unlucky number...you would think a civilized society could come up with a way for us to skip it."

-- from "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" by Bruce Coville

No one will want to skip any of the twelve short stories and one poem that make up this collection...
Blue Jasmine
AuthorKashmira Sheth
ISBN0786855657
When twelve-year-old Seema Trivedi learns that she and her family must move from their small Indian town to Iowa City, she realizes she'll have to say good-bye to the purple-jeweled mango trees and sweet-smelling jasmine, to the monsoon rains and the bustling market. More important, she must leave...
Guys Write for Guys Read
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN0670060275
What is a typical guy moment, anyhow? Daniel Pinkwater remembers the disappointment of meeting his Lone Star Ranger hero up close and personal. Gordon Korman relishes the goofy ultra violence of the old Looney Tunes cartoons. Stephen King realizes that having your two hundred-pound babysitter fart...
Necessary Roughness
AuthorMarie Myung-Ok Lee (Marie G. Lee)
ISBN0064471691
Chan Kim has never felt like an outsider in his life. That is, not until his family moves from L.A. to a tiny town in Minnesota--Land of 10,000 Lakes--and probably 10,000 hicks,too. The Kims are the only Asian family in town, and when Chan and his twin sister, Young, attend high school, it's a blond-haired,...
Novio Boy: A Play
AuthorGary Soto
Ninth grader Rudy has a date with eleventh grader Patricia. Now he has to come up with the money, the poise, and the conversation to carry it off. This one-act play, by turns heartwarming and heart-wrenching, follows Rudy from his desperate search for guidance through the hilarious date itself--all...
The Brimstone Journals
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763617423
In a startling, often poignant student journal, acclaimed poet and novelist Ron Koertge creates a suburban high school both familiar and terrifying.

The Branston High School Class of 2001 seems familiar enough on the surface: there’s the Smart One, the Fat Kid, Social Conscience, Bad...
The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
AuthorBrooke Hauser
ISBN1439163286
Some walked across deserts and mountains to get here. Others flew in on planes. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And some won’t say how they got here.These are “the new kids”: new to America and all the routines and rituals of an American high school, from lonely first days to prom. They...
What They Found: Love on 145th Street
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0385321384
WALTER DEAN MYERS returns to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places. Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. There is the "good...
Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN0763645621
Pass! Shoot! Swish! An all-star team of YA authors scores spectacularly with an action-packed anthology about street basketball.

It’s one steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as The Cage. Hotshot ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird...
Reaching Out
AuthorFrancisco Jiménez
ISBN0618038515
From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.
During his college years, the very family solidarity that allowed Francisco to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family behind...
Falling Hard: 100 Love Poems by Teenagers
AuthorBetsy Franco
ISBN0763648396
“The quality here is head and shoulders above most young writers’ collections, and in fact it’s well above many adult anthologies as well.”
— Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)

The poets are straight, gay, lesbian, bi, or transgender. They live...
Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0689841809
Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen has long been an ardent supporter of books, reading, and literacy programs. To further the cause of ProLiteracy Worldwide, he asked prominent authors to write an original story; the only restriction was that each story was to include mention of a book. The result is...
Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War
AuthorMarsha Forchuk Skrypuch
ISBN0986949515
Last Airlift is the true story of the last Canadian airlift operation that left Saigon and arrived in Toronto on April 13, 1975. Son Thi Anh Tuyet was one of 57 babies and children on that flight. Based on personal interviews and enhanced with archive photos, Tuyet's story of the Saigon orphanage and her...
The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural
AuthorDeborah Noyes
ISBN0763629065
Ten extraordinary authors spin hair-raising original tales collected by the anthologist of GOTHIC!

With scary stories by: M. T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, Herbie Brennan, Nancy Etchemendy, Annette Curtis Klause, Kelly Link, Deborah Noyes, Marcus Sedgwick, and Chris Wooding

Enter...
Monsoon Summer
AuthorMitali Perkins
ISBN0440238404
Jasmine “Jazz” Gardner heads off to India during the monsoon season. The family trip is her mother’s doing: Mrs. Gardner wants to volunteer at the orphanage that cared for her when she was young. But going to India isn’t Jazz’s idea of a great summer vacation. She wants no part of her mother’s...
Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story
AuthorPegi Deitz Shea
ISBN0618247483
For the Hmong people living in overcrowded refugee camps in Thailand, America is a dream: the land of peace and plenty. In 1995, ten years after their arrival at the camp, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang and her grandmother are about to experience that dream. In America, they will be reunited with their only...
My Diary from Here to There/Mi diario de aquí hasta allá
AuthorAmada Irma Pérez
ISBN0892391758
This richly and evocatively illustrated dual-language picture book (with Maya Christina Gonzalez' brilliantly colouful, lushly descriptive accompanying illustrations truly being redolent of the colours, the very feeling of Mexico, of Latino/Latina culture in general) tells the story of author...
Free?: Stories About Human Rights
AuthorDavid Almond
ISBN0763649260
What does it mean to be free? Top authors donate their talents to explore the question in a compelling collection to benefit Amnesty International.

A boy who thinks that school is "slavery" learns the true meaning of the word when he stumbles on a secret child-labor factory. A Palestinian boy,...
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