Tell Us We're Home

6 best books like Tell Us We're Home (Marina Budhos): Return to Sender, The Way Home Looks Now, The Dreamer, The Whole Story of Half a Girl, Cyclone, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

AuthorJulia Alvarez
After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest,...
The Way Home Looks Now
AuthorWendy Wan-Long Shang
ISBN0545609569
Twelve-year-old Chinese American Peter Lee and his family always shared a passion for baseball, bonding over backlot games and the Pittsburgh Pirates. But when a devastating tragedy strikes, the family flies apart and Peter's mom becomes paralyzed by grief, drifting further and further from her...
The Dreamer
AuthorPam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN0439269709
Neftali finds beauty and wonder everywhere: in the oily colors of mud puddles; a lost glove, sailing on the wind; the music of birds and language. He loves to collect treasures, daydream, and write--pastimes his authoritarian father thinks are for fools. Against all odds, Neftali prevails against...
The Whole Story of Half a Girl
AuthorVeera Hiranandani
ISBN0385741286
What greater praise than to be compared to Judy Blume!--"Each [Blume and Hiranandani] excels in charting the fluctuating discomfort zones of adolescent identity with affectionate humor."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred

After her father loses his job, Sonia Nadhamuni, half Indian and half...
Cyclone
AuthorDoreen Cronin
ISBN1481435256
Nora’s whole world plummets faster than the Cyclone roller coaster when her cousin Riley falls into a coma that Nora thinks is her fault in this warm, big-hearted debut middle grade novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Doreen Cronin.

Riding the Cyclone, the world famous Coney...
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
AuthorJose Antonio Vargas
ISBN0062851365
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.

“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at...
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