Catalog Search Results
1) The leavers
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Discovering that his Afghan mother has been living illegally in the United States since his father was killed in Afghanistan, American-born Jason fears that she has been deported and runs away to New York City to seek a family member who might be able to help.
Author
Appears on these lists
Description
"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
7) La promesse
Series
Criterion collection volume 620
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 20 cm
Appears on list
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.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title