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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.
4) Wild girl
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When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
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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.
10) My tree
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"A boy makes a connection with a plum tree after moving to a new home"--
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"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...
12) The quiet place
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The story of young immigrant Isabel, who misses her family and friends back in Mexico while decorating a large box as a place of quiet contemplation and encountering new experiences, including a first snowstorm and a kind teacher.
15) Lily's new home
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"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"--
17) The crossroads
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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.
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