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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
Efrén Nava's Amá is his Superwoman, or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother often prepares. Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén and his younger siblings Max and Mía feel safe and loved. But Efrén worries about his parents; although he's American-born, his parents are undocumented. His worst nightmare comes true one day when Amá doesn't return from work and is deported across...
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English
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"With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father's deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best places to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse "prison break,"...
6) Home again
Publisher
Hungry Eyes Film & Television
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Three strangers' lives collide in surprising ways when each is deported to their native Jamaica and forced to start anew on the punishing, unforgiving streets of Kingston. Marva, a single mother from Toronto, struggles to cope with being ripped from her children. Everton, an irresponsible British teen, desperately awaits word of his court appeal. Dunston, a New Yorker, tries to escape his criminal past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
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Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In Saudi Arabia, two American missionaries are targeted by the infamous religious police-Muttawa. The man is tortured and killed; his wife arrested on trumped-up charges before being deported to the United States. Compelled by the injustice of her plight, young attorney Brad Carlson files an unprecedented civil rights suit against Saudi Arabia and the ruthless head of the Muttawa. But the suit unleashes powerful forces that will stop at nothing to...
9) Samba
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
A richly entertaining chronicle of an undocumented kitchen worker battling deportation from his adopted home in Paris.
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Series
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Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Formats
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"Jake's friend Maria is the daughter of undocumented immigrants who have been living and working in the country for a long time. But the new government has implemented a crackdown. Maria's parents are detained and quickly sent out of the country. Maria, who was born here, decides to hide out in Jake's basement rather than risk becoming a ward of the state. But when she returns to her old apartment to retrieve her hidden birth certificate, Maria is...
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Publisher
Penny Candy Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The bilingual picture book Luca's Bridge / El puente de Luca, by Mariana Llanos with illustrations by Anna López Real, tells the emotional story of a boy coming to terms with his family's deportation from the United States to Mexico. A powerful meditation on home and identity at a time when our country sorely needs it." --
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English
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The new 'Sarah Burke' mystery from the creator of Jake Hines - As Sarah Burke and her crew of police detectives investigate an apparent murder-suicide in a well-known family of local merchants, their façade of diligent respectability explodes in a burst of violence that rips the cover off long-concealed family secrets. In a second case, Southern Arizona's diverse population streams collide as border crossers and drug smugglers, federal agents
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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Up in smoke: Two stoners find and steal a van, only to find the entire thing is made out of marijuana.
Still smokin': An invitation to a party turns into chaos for two pot-smoking friends, and they must find a way home.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
15) X: a novel
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Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
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Description
"The world is ending, and down-and-out sadist Lee spends their days working for a big corporation and their nights wandering the streets of Brooklyn...But everything changes when Lee is dragged to a warehouse party by their best friend, where they find themself in the clutches of the seductive and bloodthirsty X...the U.S. government has recently begun encouraging the semi-voluntary 'exporting' of undesirable citizens--the radicalized, the dissident,...
16) California solo
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A former Britpop rocker is living a numb existence and working on an organic farm just outside LA. By day he goes to a farmer's market to sell produce and by night he drinks himself into a stupor. Drinking one night he gets pulled over for a DUI that dredges up a past drug offense and threatens him with deportation. His only hope of remaining stateside is proving that his absence would cause extreme hardship for a spouse or relative.
17) Blue bayou
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home." --
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English
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"By most accounts, the United States has deported around five million people since 1882-but this includes only what the federal government calls "formal deportations." "Voluntary departures," where undocumented immigrants who have been detained agree to leave within a specified time period, and "self-deportations," where undocumented immigrants leave because legal structures in the United States have made their lives too difficult and frightening,...
19) The grief keeper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador." --
Marisol and Gabi Morales are detainees of the United States government, caught crossing the U.S. border to escape the gang violence in their country after their brother was murdered. When Marisol learns that they are going to be sent...
20) Born in East L.A
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A Mexican-American repairman, born and raised in East Los Angeles, is accidentally deported to Mexico.