Immigration Stories from Madison and Milwaukee High Schools


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This book is a collection of digital narratives and personal essays written by thirty immigrant and refugee high school students from twenty two countries who reside in Madison and Milwaukee.




Immigration Stories from a Minneapolis High School


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This book is a collection of digital narratives and personal essays written by thirty immigrant and refugee high school students from thirteen countries who reside in Minneapolis.




Immigration Stories from Atlanta High Schools


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This book is a collection of digital narratives and personal essays written by twenty-one immigrant and refugee high school students from thirteen countries who reside in Atlanta.




Immigration Stories from Upstate New York High Schools: Green Card Voices


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This book is a collection of digital narratives and personal essays written by thirty immigrant and refugee youth from twenty countries who reside in Buffalo and Rochester in New York State.




Green Card Youth Voices


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This book is a collection of digital narratives and personal essays written by thirty immigrant and refugee high school students from thirteen countries who reside in Minneapolis.




Our Stories Carried Us Here


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A bold and unconventional collection of first-person stories told and illustrated by immigrants and refugees living across the United States. Stanford scientist, deaf student, indigenous activist, Black entrepreneur-all immigrants and refugees-recount journeys from their home countries in ten vibrantly illustrated stories. Faced by unfamiliar vistas, they are welcomed with possibilities, and confronted by challenges and prejudice. Timely, sobering, and insightful, Our Stories Carried Us Here acts as a mirror and a light to connect us all with immigrant and refugee experiences. Green Card Voices works to educate and empower communities by amplifying first-person stories of America's immigrants. Edited by Tea Rozman, Julie Vang, and Tom Kaczynski. Cover by Nate Powell. Foreword by Thi Bui




Enrique's Journey


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The true story of a boy who sets out with absolutely nothing to find his mother who went to the US from Honduras to look for work.




Queerfully and Wonderfully Made


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ALA 2021 Rainbow List Pick Are you LGBTQ+? Not sure? Whether you're queer or questioning, understanding sexuality and gender identity can be confusing. And if you're a Christian, questions of identity can be even scarier. Is there something wrong with you? Will your friends accept you? When should you tell your family? What about church? Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens has answers to all these questions and more. You'll get insight and support from an amazing group of LGBTQ+ professionals, as well as testimonies from young adult queer Christians who've recently been exactly where you are. You'll walk away with a lot of answers, prepared with tools to help. But most importantly, you'll hear the good news: God loves you exactly as you are. No matter your identity or where in your journey of self-discovery you find yourself, you got this.




They Came to Wisconsin


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They Came to Wisconsin presents three themes of the state's immigrant history: leaving the homeland, making the journey, and enduring the first year of settlement. Journal and diary entries and letters from European groups and oral histories from African American, Latino, Hmong, and Amish sources make this book dynamic and wholly inclusive. They Came to Wisconsin breaks fresh ground in presenting document-centered Wisconsin history to a young audience. More important, these firsthand stories add a real human dimension to history, helping students to compare the experiences of the varied groups who came to Wisconsin in the last two hundred years.




Immigration Stories from a St. Paul High School


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This book is a collection of digital narratives and personal essays written by twenty-one immigrant and refugee high school students from thirteen countries who reside in Saint Paul.