Baillie, Allan, Little Brother, Viking Press, 1992. Vithy is separated from his older brother as they flee from Cambodia to Thailand. He must use his own wits and resources to survive.

Banerjee, Anjali, Maya Running, Wendy Lamb Books, Random House. It is 1978 in Manitoba, Canada, and 13-year-old Maya walks a fine line between wanting to fit in and being curious about her Indian heritage.

Brown, Jackie, Little Cricket, Hyperion, 2004. When North Vietnamese soldiers destroy 12-year-old Kia's peaceful Hmong farming village, Kia's father disappears, and the rest of the family makes the dangerous escape through the Laotian jungle to a refugee camp in Thailand before emigrating to America.

Canales, Viola, The Tequila Worm, Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, 2005. Sofia is offered a scholarship to the elite Saint Luke's school in Austin. Now she must convince her Mexican-American family and herself that she is up to the challenge.

Cheng, Andrea, The Key Collection, Henry Holt, 2003. A ten-year-old boy in the Midwest misses his Chinese grandmother, who always lived next door until her health caused her to move.

Jimenez, Francisco, The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, University of New Mexico Press, 1997. The true story of Francisco's family and their dream to stay in the United States.

Kadohata, Cynthia, Weedflower, Atheneum, 2006. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko and her family are shipped to an internment camp in the desert. But then she meets a young Mohave boy who might just become her first real friend -- if he can ever stop being angry about the fact that the camp is on his tribe's land.

Lee, Marie G, If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun, Avon Books, 1995. When Alice's Korean-American father insists that she befriends Yoon Jun, a geeky-looking Korean kid who's just come to America, she gets upset.

Lin, Grace, Year of the Dog, Little Brown, 2006. Grace and her two sisters are the only Taiwanese-American children at school until Melody arrives.

Look, Lenore, Ruby Lu, Brave and True, Simon and Schuster, 2004. Eight-year-old Ruby musters up courage to attend Chinese school; confronts mean Christina from California; and has to share her bedroom with a cousin, Flying Duck, who is moving from China.

Look, Lenore, Empress of Everything, Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books, 2006. After Flying Duck arrives, no one speaks English at home, there's strange food on the table and only chopsticks to eat it with, and Ruby doesn't know any Chinese Sign Language.

Lombard, Jenny, Drita My Homegirl, Putnam, 2006. Drita and her family come to New York as refugees from war-torn Kosovo. Even though she barely speaks English, Drita can't wait to start school. But her new classmates don't make it easy, and the worst is Maxie, a tough African-American girl whose sassy attitude hides a painful secret.

Lord, Bette Bao, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Cornerstone Books, 1990. In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she learns to love baseball.

Lupica, Mike, Heat, Philomel, 2006. Newly orphaned after his father led the family's escape from Cuba, Michael has no birth certificate and no one to watch out for him except his older brother Carlos. Until someone questions how a 12-year-old boy can possibly throw a baseball with so much heat.

Namioka, Lensey, Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear, Little Brown, 1994. Yang, a recent immigrant from China, is musically untalented but is expected to give a violin performance to help his father get students.

Nye, Naomi Shihab, Habibi, Simon & Schuster, 1997. 14-year-old Liyana's doctor father, a native Palestinian, decides to move his family back to Jerusalem from St. Louis.

Park, Linda Sue,  Project Mulberry, Clarion, 2005. When Julia Song moves to Plainfield, IL, where they are the only Korean family in town, she and her neighbor Patrick plan a state fair project on raising silkworms.

Perkins, Mitali, The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen, Little Brown, 2005. Sunita, a California eighth-grader, finds her entire life turned upside-down when her grandparents visit for a year from India.

Sheth, Kashmira, Blue Jasmine, Hyperion, 2004. When 12-year-old Seema moves with her parents and younger sister from India to Iowa City, she must leave her grandparents, extended family, and, most distressingly, her cousin Raju, who has been like a brother to her.

Soto, Gary, Taking Sides, Harcourt, 1991. Lincoln Mendoza leaves his Hispanic American neighborhood and moves to the suburbs.

Taylor, Sidney, All-of-a-Kind-of-Family books. A Jewish family celebrates immigrant life in New York.

Uchida, Yoshiko, Journey to Topaz, Jar of Dreams, Journey Home, The Best Bad Thing, The Invisible Thread. Stories about Japanese-American families during WWII.

Warren, Andrea, Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy, Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 2004. Relays the true story of a boy who escapes from Vietnam to start a new life in the U.S.

Williams, Mary, Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, Lee and Low, 2005. Driven from his village home by the soldiers, 8-year-old Garang treks with other boys nearly 1,000 miles across the border, first to Ethiopia, later to Kenya, and then to America.