Runaway
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: models (persons), transplantation of organs, tissues, etc, identity (psychology), new york (n.y.), runaways, parapsychology, extrasensory perception, mystery and detective stories, runaway teenagers, child abuse [X], immigrants [X], frontier and pioneer life, historical fiction, murder, psychokinesis, homicide, horror fiction, runaway children, homeless persons, orphans, survival skills, diaries
The Distance Between Us
When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to work in the United States, he promises to return with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together.
920
year: 2013
copies: 25
call number/section: 920
lexile: 780
subjects: grande, reyna, mexican americans, immigrants [X], abused children, mexican american women authors, mexico, united states, los angeles (calif.), child abuse [X]
A Bandit's Tale
In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: conduct of life, child labor, child abuse [X], immigrants [X], italians, animals, new york (n.y.), animal welfare, new york (n.y.)
The Distance Between Us
"At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed"--Provided by publisher.
920
year: 2016
copies: 32
call number/section: 920
lexile: 780
subjects: grande, reyna, mexican americans, mexican american women authors, immigrants [X], abused children, united states, mexico, los angeles (calif.), authors, women, child abuse [X], autobiographies
Made In China
"As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: qu, anna, chinese, immigrants [X], abused children, mothers and daughters, child abuse [X], mother-daughter relationship, autobiographies