Broyles. Anne, Shy Mama’s Halloween, Tilbury 2002. For Anya, Dasha, Irina, and Dimitrii, newly arrived from Russia, Halloween is their first sense of belonging in their new country. For Mama, it is a much greater step out into a new world, led by her children.

Cheng, Andrea, Goldfish and Chrysanthemums, Lee and Low, 2003. A Chinese American girl puts her goldfish into a fish pond that she creates and borders with chrysanthemums in order to remind her grandmother of the fish pond she had back in China.

Edmonds, Lyra, An African Princess, Candlewick, 2004. Lyra says she is an African princess, even though she lives on the tenth floor of an apartment building and her dad is white. Then she travels to the far-off savanna where Mama played as a child, and meets Taunte May.

Friedman, Ina R., How My Parents Learned to Eat, Houghton Mifflin, 1984. An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries in secret to learn how the other eats.

Garland, Sherri, The Lotus Seed, Harcourt, 1993. A nameless Vietnamese narrator tells of her grandmother who keeps a seed with her through war and flight until one summer a grandson (the narrator's brother) steals it and plants it in a mud pool near the family's American home.

Gray, Nigel, A Balloon for Grandad, Orchard Books, 1988. Unhappy when he loses his silver and red balloon, Sam is comforted by imagining it on its way to visit his grandfather Abdulla in Egypt.

Gilmore, Rachna, Lights for Gita, Roses for Gita, and A Gift for Gita, Tilbury House, 1999, 2000, 2001. Gita misses India very much, but by the third book, she is feeling at home in Canada and doesn't want to move back to India even though her father is offered a job promotion there.

Herald, Maggie Rudd, A Very Important Day, Morrow, 1995. 219 people from 32 countries make their way to downtown New York in a snowstorm to be sworn in as United States citizens.

Herrera, Juan Felipe, Super Cilantro Girl, Children's Book Press, 2003. Esmeralda, eight, worries when her mother does not return home. Having crossed the border to Tijuana, Mama is being detained because she does not have a green card.

Hoffman, Mary, The Color of Home, Dial Books for Young Readers, 2002. Hassan, a recent immigrant from Somalia, is homesick on his first day of school in America. When the teacher distributes art supplies, Hassan discovers a way to communicate.

Krishnaswami, Uma, Chachaji's Cup, Children's Book Press, 2003. An Indian-American boy understands the effect of the 1947 partitioning of India and Pakistan on his grandfather's life.

Krishnaswami, Uma, Bringing Asha Home, Lee & Low, 2006. A brother waits eagerly for the arrival of his new baby sister from India.

Kurtz, Jane, In the Small, Small Night, Amistad, 2005. Abena’s younger brother Kofi can't sleep, afraid that a giant mampan lizard has followed him to America and that he will forget the grandmother and cousins he left in Ghana. Abena comforts him with two Ashanti tales.

Lee, Milly, Landed, Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2006. Sun, 12, must prove that he’s his father's true son as he tries to immigrate to America. Detained on Angel Island, he’s interrogated for a month, and befriends two "paper sons" who have made up identities to get into the country.

Levine, Ellen, I Hate English! Scholastic, 1989. When her family moves from Hong Kong to New York, Mei Mei finds it difficult to learn the alien sounds of English.

Lin, Grace, The Ugly Vegetables, Charlesbridge, 1999. A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all.

Makhijani, Pooja, Mama's Saris, Little Brown, 2007. When a young girl eyes her mother's suitcase full of gorgeous silk, cotton and embroidered saris, she decides that she, too, should wear one, even though she is too young for such clothing.

Mochizuki, Ken, Baseball Saved Us, Lee and Low, 1993. The narrator and his family inhabit a camp in the parched American desert, where life becomes a bit more bearable after the internees build a baseball field, and the boy gains self-worth by hitting a championship home run.

Molnar-Fenton, Stephan, An Mei's Strange and Wondrous Journey, DK Ink, 1998. Six-year-old An Mei tells the story of how she was born in China and came to live in America.

Nye, Naomi Shihab, Sitti’s Secrets, Simon & Schuster, 1994. When Mona travels from her home in the U.S. to visit her grandmother's small Palestinian village on the West Bank, she must rely on her father to translate at first, but soon she and Sitti are communicating perfectly.

Shin, Sun Yung, Cooper's Lesson, Children's Book Press, 2004. Cooper, who has a Korean mother and a white, American father, is called "half and half" by his cousin. When he goes to the Korean grocery, he can't understand Mr. Lee, the owner, and shoplifts a brush for his mother.

Surat, Michele, Angel Child, Dragon Child, Raintree/Steck Vaughn, 1987. A Vietnamese girl in America lonely for her mother left behind in Vietnam makes a new friend.

Thomas, Eliza, The Red Blanket, Scholastic, 2004. A Chinese infant, PanPan, is upset by the changes in her young life when she is adopted, and the dazzling red blanket is the only comfort she finds on that first day.

Wahl, Jan, Candy Shop, Charlesbridge, 2004. An African-American boy reacts to an act of prejudice he witnesses at his favorite store owned by a Taiwanese woman.

Wang, Jan Peng, A Song for Ba, Groundwood Books, 2004. In the 1920s, a boy's father sings for a North American Chinese opera company that falls on hard times.

Wells, Rosemary, Yoko, Hyperion, 1998. It is Yoko's first day at school, so mother sends her off with healthy comfort food for lunch — a delectable package of homemade sushi. But when Yoko opens her cooler, one of her classmates announces, "Ick. It's green. It's seaweed."