Research Guides: Education Resource Area: Immigration

Immigrant Stories

Beyond Borders: Graphic Memoirs and Graphic Novels About Immigrant and Refugee Experiences
Chicago Public Library
Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels: Immigrants/Refugees
James A. Cannavino Library
Immigrant Learning Center Recommended Books
Teaching about Immigration
Social Justice Books

Immigration Text Set

Fiona's Lace by Patricia Polacco (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781442487246

Publication Date: 2014-08-26
Friends from the Other Side (Amigos del Otro Lado) by Gloria Anzaldúa; Consuelo Mendez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0892391138

Publication Date: 1993-01-01

Having crossed the Rio Grande into Texas with his mother in search of a new life, Joaquin receives help and friendship from Prietita, a brave young Mexican American girl."
Here I Am by Patti Kim; Prospect Agency Staff (Contribution by); Sonia Sánchez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1623700361

Publication Date: 2013-09-01
I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosín; Lee White (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781442494763

Publication Date: 2014-03-04
In the New World by Gerda Raidt (Illustrator); Christa Holtei; Susi Woofter
ISBN: 9781580896306

Publication Date: 2015-03-10

The story of Robert and Margarete and their children Johannes and Dorothea, who emigrate from Germany to the United States in 1850.
I Was Dreaming to Come to America by Veronica Lawlor; Rudolph W. Giuliani (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0670861642

Publication Date: 1995-07-01

A small picture book that draws on the experiences of some of the 12 million people who passed through Ellis Island.
Journey to Ellis Island by Carol Bierman; Laurie McGaw (Illustrator); Barbara Hehner (Contribution by)
ISBN: 0786803770

Publication Date: 1998-11-25
Lost in America by Marilyn Sachs
ISBN: 1596430400

Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Maggie's Amerikay by Barbara Timberlake Russell; Jim Burke (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0374347220

Publication Date: 2006-04-18
Migrant by José Manual Mateo; Javier Martínez Pedro (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781419709579

Publication Date: 2014-04-15
My Chinatown by Kam Mak (Illustrator); Mak
ISBN: 0060291907

Publication Date: 2001-12-04
My Diary from Here to There by Amada Irma Perez; Maya Christina Gonzalez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0892391758

Publication Date: 2002-07-26
My Freedom Trip by Frances Park; Ginger Park; Debra Reid Jenkins (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1563974681

Publication Date: 1998-09-01
No English by Jacqueline Jules; Amy Huntington (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781587264740

Publication Date: 2007-08-01
One Green Apple by Eve Bunting; Ted Lewin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0618434771

Publication Date: 2006-06-12
Xochitl and the Flowers (Xochitl, la Nina de Las Flores) by Jorge Argueta; Carl Angel (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0892391812

Publication Date: 2003-06-19

Xochitl and her family, newly arrived in San Francisco from El Salvador,reate a beautiful plant nursery in place of the garbage heap behind theirpartment, and celebrate with their friends and neighbors.

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Immigration Text Set

All the Way to America by Dan Yaccarino
ISBN: 9780375866425

Publication Date: 2011-03-08
America, My New Home by Monica Gunning; Ken Condon (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1590780574

Publication Date: 2004-11-01
Angelina's Island by Jeanette Winter
ISBN: 0374303495

Publication Date: 2007-04-17
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0439895294

Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Brothers in Hope by Mary Williams; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1584302321

Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes (Illustrator); Henkes
ISBN: 9780688096991

Publication Date: 1991-09-16
Dia's Story Cloth by Dia Cha; Chue Cha (Illustrator); Nhia Thao Cha (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1880000342

Publication Date: 1996-03-01

The Hmong People's Journey of Freedom
Here I Am by Patti Kim; Prospect Agency Staff (Contribution by); Sonia Sánchez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781623700362

Publication Date: 2013-09-01
Just Like Home by Elizabeth I. Miller; Mira Reisberg (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0807540684

Publication Date: 2004-09-01

A young girl's first sights and experiences in the United States are sometimes familiar just like home.
My Name Is Yoon by Helen Recorvits; Gabi Swiatkowska (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0374351147

Publication Date: 2003-04-03
One More Border by William Kaplan; Shelley Tanaka; Stephen Taylor (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0888993323

Publication Date: 1998-09-14
Paper Son by Helen Foster James; Virginia Shin-Mui Loh; Wilson Ong (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781585368334

Publication Date: 2013-05-01
The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye
ISBN: 9781483005829

Publication Date: 2014-08-26
Until I Find Julian by Patricia Reilly Giff
ISBN: 9780385744829

Publication Date: 2015-09-08
What Was Ellis Island? by Patricia Brennan Demuth; Kevin McVeigh (Illustrator); David Groff (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780448479156

Publication Date: 2014-03-13

From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants.
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest; P. J. Lynch (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0763600946

Publication Date: 1997-11-03