Novels

1) The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros: In this book a young girl tells her story of belonging to a place where she seems to not fit in because of the language she speaks, her family's income, her hobbies and more.

2) Listen, Slowly by Thannaha Lai: A book that tells a compelling story about the complexities of language and the difficulties of speaking when you are in a place where you cannot communicate with anyone around you.

3) Refugee by Alan Gratz: A book that tells of the difficult journies of three teens from their homeland to a new place. Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. Isabel is a Cuban girl immigrating to the United States during the turmoil of the 1994 riots. Mahmoud is a Syrian on a harrowing journey to Europe in 2015.

4) Shanghai Girls by Lisa See: This books tells the journey of two sisters from Shanghai to the United States after their father gambles away their money and arranges marriages for them to foreign men.

5) Dreams of Joy by Lisa See:

6) The Joy Luck Club

7) The Namesake

8) Esperanza Rising

9) The Girl Who Came Home

10) Fire on the Mountain

11) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: A book about the tragic past of a young boy from Kabul and how he manages to adapt to the United States and then return to the places where he faced so many horrors.

12) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini:

13) The Syrian Virgin, Anissa’s Redemption

14) Honolulu

15) Like Water on Stone by Dana Walrath: A book written in verse about the difficult journey of three adolescents after they are uprooted from their Armenian home.

16) Life of Pi

17) Recollections of Jerusalem

18) Brooklyn