[PDF] Starting Over In Sunset Park eBook

Author : Lynn McGee
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0884488462

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Brooklyn is a strange, intimidating place for a girl who speaks no English when she steps off her very first plane after a flight from the Dominican Republic. Jessica and her mom, Camila, must live in their cousins’ crowded apartment until Camila finds work making holiday decorations and they can afford their own place. Isolated on the playground and baffled in class, unable to understand her teacher’s instructions, Jessica is intensely homesick. But little by little, things get better. She begins to learn English, and she loves the cats she and her mom care for to earn extra money. Left behind by traveling owners, the cats make the best of their situation, inspiring Jessica to do the same.

Author : Lynn McGee
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780884488446

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Brooklyn is a strange, intimidating place for a girl who speaks no English when she steps off her very first plane after a flight from the Dominican Republic. Jessica and her mom, Camila, must live in their cousins' crowded apartment until Camila finds work making holiday decorations and they can afford their own place. Isolated on the playground and baffled in class, unable to understand her teacher's instructions, Jessica is intensely homesick. But little by little, things get better. She begins to learn English, and she loves the cats she and her mom care for to earn extra money. Left behind by traveling owners, the cats make the best of their situation, inspiring Jessica to do the same. This lovely story humanizes the challenges faced by immigrants to the US. Bianca Diaz's illustrations bring Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and New York City to vibrant life.

Author : Hannah Carmona
Publisher : Lantana Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1913747603

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A beautifully tender story touching on the range of emotions immigrants may feel when leaving their home countries – excitement and sorrow, fear and courage. Anita watches the dragons high above her as she hops from one cement roof to another in her village in the Dominican Republic. But being the valiant princesa she is, she never lets them scare her. Will she be brave enough to enter the belly of the beast and take flight to new adventures? A Barnes & Noble Bookseller Favorite. A BookTrust Book of the Month. A Love Reading For Schools Book of the Month. “A gorgeous story about the love of one’s homeland and the courage it takes to emigrate”—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED “Anita's courage as she flies off with the dragons to a new land will linger long after the final page”—Girls Read The World “What a punch this book packs. Hannah Carmona’s lyrical narrative is paired with THE dreamiest artwork by Anna Cunha – I’m obsessed with the color palette, and the gentle simplicity of her spreads is calming, yet full of energy”—The Little Literary Society

Author : Roberto Aliaga
Publisher : Cuento de Luz
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8416733562

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Seeking a new home where to feel safe, fireflies embark on a difficult journey and will learn that there is always a light at the end of the way. In the blink of an eye, the fireflies are forced to leave their field. Without a home, without food, and without a future, the fireflies made a decision. They packed their bags, and for the first time ever in the history of their species, they set off in search of the light at the end of the way. They all left together. Grandparents, children, parents ... entire families fly together and undertake the journey guided by that sparkling light that shines beyond. But it’s a difficult journey, full of seemingly impossible obstacles, which only the love that binds the family together can overcome. This emotional tale of feelings and identity leads us through the darkness into the light of a better future.

Author : Christy Hale
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0823446441

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Follow a girl through her day in a busy city as she travels to school and back again in this inviting book that teaches directional concepts like over, under, and through. Out the door, down the stoop, past the neighbors, along the block ... Through tree-lined streets, onto a crowded subway car, into the classroom with friends, and finally, retracing her steps back home again. There's so much to see in Christy Hale's warm, richly textured collage artwork and simple, evocative text set in a busy Brooklyn cityscape. Out the Door is the perfect back-to-school book for young kids learning to find their way around a city. Parents and teachers can use this read-aloud to familiarize kids with a host of directional words to describe their first school days. A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

Author : Tarry Hum
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 143991091X

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Based on more than a decade of research, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood charts the evolution of Sunset Park--with a densely concentrated working-poor and racially diverse immigrant population--from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City's most vibrant neighborhoods. Tarry Hum shows how processes of globalization, such as shifts in low-wage labor markets and immigration patterns, shaped the neighborhood. She explains why Sunset Park's future now depends on Asian and Latino immigrant collaborations in advancing common interests in community building, civic engagement, entrepreneurialism, and sustainability planning. She shows, too, how residents' responses to urban development policies and projects and the capital represented by local institutions and banks foster community activism. Hum pays close attention to the complex social, political, and spatial dynamics that forge a community and create new models of leadership as well as coalitions. The evolution of Sunset Park so astutely depicted in this book suggests new avenues for studying urban change and community development.

Author : Harry Bliss
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1935179004

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A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.

Author : Naomi Shmuel
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1541591526

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"There's an Ethiopian; there's an Ethiopian!" I heard them shouting. I looked behind me, but I couldn't see any Ethiopian. Children began crowding round me, and I still didn't realize that they meant me, I was the Ethiopian. Meskerem was born in a small town in the Golan Heights of Israel, to an Ethiopian mother and an American father. Soon after Operation Solomon, when several thousand Ethiopian immigrants were brought to Israel, Meskerem's parents decided to move to the center of the country, to the town of Herzelia. Meskerem comes face-to-face with the ignorance and prejudices of her new classmates, many of whom are meeting someone dark-skinned for the first time. With the help of her Ethiopian grandmother, who remained in Kazerin, Meskerem comes to terms with who she is and finds strength in belonging to three different cultures.

Author : Amy Costales
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1558856269

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A young woman recalls her grandfather's abiding presence in her life as he cares for her throughout her infancy and childhood while her mother is at school or work, until she is the one fixing his snacks and seeing him safely to bed.

Author : Cheri J. Meiners
Publisher : Learning about Me & You
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2018-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781631982200

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"This friendly book shares with toddlers the different phases of play in their day--from playing alone and pretending, to playing beside others, to playing together"--Page 4 of cover.