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Title First crossing : stories about teen immigrants / edited by Donald R. Gallo.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Teen  YF FIR    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 224 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Stories of recent Mexican, Venezuelan, Kazakh, Chinese, Romanian, Palestinian, Swedish, Korean, Haitian, and Cambodian immigrants reveal what it is like to face prejudice, language barriers, and homesickness along with common teenage feelings and needs.
Contents First crossing / Pam Muñoz Ryan -- Second culture kids / Dian Curtis Regan -- My favorite chaperone / Jean Davies Okimoto -- They don't mean it! / Lensey Namioka -- Pulling up stakes / David Lubar -- Lines of scrimmage / Elsa Marston -- Swede / Alden R. Carter -- Rose of Sharon / Marie G. Lee -- Make Maddie mad / Rita Williams-Garcia -- Green armchair / Minfong Ho.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.1 8.0 81837.
Subject Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction, American.
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Short stories.
Added Author Gallo, Donald R.
ISBN 0763622494
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