W. Ross Macdonald School Library

First Crossing :

Gallo, Donald R., 1938- , editor.

First Crossing : stories about teen immigrants / edited by Donald R. Gallo. - First paperback edition. - Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007, c2004. - xi, 224 pages ; 22 cm

Introduction / Donald R. Gallo. 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. The Swede / Alden R. Carter. The Rose of Sharon / Marie G. Lee. Make Maddie Mad / Rita Williams-Garcia. The Green Armchair / Minfong Ho. About the editor.

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.

Teen / young adult.

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Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Teenagers--Fiction.


FICTION / General.
FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors).

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