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Title:

Come on in : 15 stories about immigration and finding home / edited by Adi Alsaid.

Publisher:

Inkyard Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

314 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Emigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Short stories.

Other Authors:

Alsaid, Adi, author. author.
Azad, Nafiza, author.
Farizan, Sara, author.
Sugiura, Misa, author.
Rivera, Lilliam, author.
Johnson, Alaya Dawn, 1982- author.
Charaipotra, Sona, author.
Andreu, Maria E., author.
Goo, Maurene, author.
Bajaj, Varsha, author.
M�endez, Yamile Saied, author.
Larbalestier, Justine, author.
Quintero, Isabel, author.
Morse, Sharon (Young adult author), author.
C�ordova, Zoraida, author.

Contents:

Fleeing, leaving, moving / Adi Alsaid. The wedding / Sara Farizan -- Where I'm from / Misa Sugiura -- Salvation and the sea / Lilliam Rivera -- Volvi�endome / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- The trip / Sona Charaipotra -- The curandera and the alchemist / Maria E. Andreu -- A bigger tent / Maurene Goo -- First words / Varsha Bajaj -- Family over everything / Yamile Saied M�endez -- When I was white / Justine Larbalestier -- From Golden State / Isabel Quintero -- Hard to say / Sharon Morse -- Confessions of an Ecuadorkian / Zoraida C�ordova -- 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

ISBN:

1335146490
9781335146496

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1184477150

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

CZPD706 -- West Liberty Public Library (West Liberty)