CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2006
"Lombard does a fine job of portraying characters displaying growth through some serious circumstances while maintaining their childlike qualities. (Fiction. 9-12)"
Two girls from different worlds and cultures come together in this deft representation of immigration and multicultural friendship.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Nov. 8, 2005
"Both funny and moving, Du's story will captivate middle-grade readers while it introduces them to a new way of looking at their world. (Fiction. 8-12)"
Left behind when his family emigrated from Vietnam, fifth-grader Du Nguyen rejoins his parents and three older siblings after ten years and finds the U.S. a strange and difficult world.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 15, 2005
"Readers will be rooting for this plucky heroine as she struggles along to the "ultimate destiny of power and stubbornness—adulthood." (Fiction. 10-13)"
A class project is the catalyst for 13-year-old Linda Berati to learn about her illegal immigrant family's soul-crushing past in Albania, their difficult and dangerous journey to America, and how her mother got the long facial scar she has always refused to discuss.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2005
"Let's hope for a sequel or two. (Glossary) (Fiction. 7-11)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: June 1, 2004
"A realistic emigration story told with empathy and sincerity. (glossary) (Fiction. 12-14)"
The comfortable and confident life 12-year-old Seema Trivedi enjoys in her upper-class neighborhood in India is altered by the family's move to an American middle-class suburban community.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 15, 2004
"Honesty and subtlety co-exist in Cheng's thoughtful, never-didactic writing. (Fiction. 9-12)"
