Title:
Come on in : 15 stories about immigration and finding home / edited by Adi Alsaid.
ISBN:
9781335146496
Publication Information:
Toronto, Ontario : Inkyard Press, [2020]
©2020
Physical Description:
314 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
All the colors of goodbye / Nafiza Azad -- Wedding / Sara Farizan -- Where I'm from / Misa Sugiura -- Salvation and the sea / Lilliam Rivera -- Volviéndome / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- Trip / Sona Charaipotra -- Curandera and the alchemist / Maria E. Andreu -- A bigger tent / Maurene Goo -- First words / Varsha Bajaj -- Family over everything / Yamile Saied Méndez -- When I was white / Justine Larbalestier -- From Golden State / Isabel Quintero -- Hard to say / Sharon Morse -- Confessions of an Ecuadorkian / Zoraida Córdova -- Fleeing, leaving, moving / Adi Alsaid.
Summary:
This collection features stories from bestselling and up-and-coming YA authors.
An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets of the immigrant experience, the characters decide their own answer to the question "where are you from?" -- adapted from jacket
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.2 10 508847.
Genre:
OCLC Number:
on1184477150
Availability:
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