A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.

After growing up near San Francisco, a young Japanese woman returns with her parents to their native Japan, but she feels foreign and out of place.

Picture book following the budding friendship between a boy, who once was the new kid at school himself, and the immigrant girl Violet. Violet shows up to class one day shy and quiet, but the boy notices her pick up scraps of brightly colored plastic and leaves on her way home from school. One day, the boy asks Violet what she does with all the scraps, and she lets him see her colorful collage and room that reminds her of home.

"Angelina and the other mouselings at Miss Lilly's Ballet School perform Cinderella on tour, battling homesickness and bad luck to ensure the show will go on"--

"Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she'll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape. One day, she meets her neighbor, a boy named Luke, and begins to feel a little more...

Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father.

"Lily and her parents move to a new home in New York City. Everything is so new and different, which makes Lily even more homesick"--

Jaime, twelve, and Angela, fifteen, discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States, while news from home gets increasingly worse.

A special quilt keeps a little girl from feeling homesick when she sleeps over with her grandparents.