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3) The leavers
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"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
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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When a father is taken away from his family and faces deportation, his family is left to grieve and wonder what comes next. Maricela, Manual, and their mother face the many challenges and changes created by their father's absence. A new home, missed soccer games and birthday parties, and emptiness are now day-to-day norms. But Maricela learns that her love for her father is sustained even though he is no longer part of her daily life.
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 21 cm
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El verano se torna más ocupado a medida que aprende a equilibrar su tiempo entre las nuevas prácticas con su antiguo grupo, Los Bobbys, y ser el novio de Joanna Padilla. La llaman "fregona" porque es fuerte, siempre defiende a su familia y mantiene a raya al bully de la escuela. Pero el Güero ve su dulzura interior. Juntos cocinan espaguetis baratos y se toman de la mano en el campo de naranjos, mientras van conociéndose más y más a ellos mismos...
6) Blue bayou
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the story of a Korean adoptee, raised in the Lousiana bayou and living with his wife and stepdaughter, who must confront his past when he discovers that he could be deported.
7) Blue bayou
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the story of a Korean adoptee, raised in the Lousiana bayou and living with his wife and stepdaughter, who must confront his past when he discovers that he could be deported.
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"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"--
Author
Publisher
American Bar Assocociation
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 294 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), forms ; 24 cm
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"For the first time, noted New York immigration attorney Leon Wildes tells the incredible story of this landmark case ? John Lennon vs. The U.S.A. -- that set up a battle of wills between John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and President Richard Nixon. Although Wildes did not even know who John Lennon and Yoko Ono were when he was originally retained by them, he developed a close relationship with them both during the eventual five-year period while he represented...
11) Indivisible
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
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New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico.
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Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
14) Born in East L.A
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Mexican-American repairman, born and raised in East Los Angeles, is accidentally deported to Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
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Publisher
Wattpad by Montena
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Tras la deportación de su madre un año atrás, todo lo que Soledad “Sol” Gutiérrez desea es volver a tener una vida normal. Su entorno cambió por completo: nuevo departamento, nueva escuela, nueva dinámica familiar… ella simplemente quiere encajar, y la mejor manera de conseguirlo es uniéndose al Club de Historia de su escuela. Para ello, Sol debe participar de un rito de iniciación: entrar a la vieja casa de los Westray y robar… ¿un...
17) Up in smoke
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two free-spirited bums, traveling in a van made of pot, experience sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll.
18) The infiltrators
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best places to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse prison break,'...
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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"Betita, de nueve años, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le contó la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los Ángeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en México. Los aztecas procedían de un lugar llamado Aztlán, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa 'tierra de las grullas', y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtitlán, la actual Ciudad de México. Cuenta una profesía que...
20) Efrén divided
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Pub. Date
2020.
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While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
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