First crossing : stories about teen immigrants / edited by Donald R. Gallo. - 1st paperback ed. - Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007. - xi, 224 p. ; 22 cm.

First crossing / Second culture kids / My favorite chaperone / They don't mean it! / Pulling up stakes / Lines of scrimmage / The Swede / The rose of Sharon / Make Maddie mad / The green armchair / Pam Mu�oz Ryan -- Dian Curtis Regan -- Jean Davies Okimoto -- Lensey Namioka -- David Lubar -- Elsa Marston -- Alden R. Carter -- Marie G. Lee -- Rita Williams-Garcia -- Minfong Ho.

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.

0763632910 (pbk.) 9780763632915 (pbk.)

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Emigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Young adult fiction, American.
Short stories.

PZ5 / .F924 2007

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