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The story of Gus and Lena, Canadian Geese spending a litting time on the St. Louis River in Duluth Minnesota.

"From National Book Award finalist Ken Kalfus, a novel imagining a future in which civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders into an unwelcoming world."--Provided by publisher.

Hella is a planet where everything is oversized--especially the ambitions of the colonists. The trees are mile-high, the dinosaur herds are huge, and the weather is extreme--so extreme, the colonists have to migrate twice a year to escape the blistering heat of summer and the atmosphere-freezing cold of winter. Kyle is a neuro-atypical young man, emotionally challenged, but with an implant that gives him real-time access to the colony's computer network,...

Spanning the breadth of the twentieth century and into the post-9/11 wars and their legacy, Correspondents is a powerful novel that centers on Rita Khoury, an Irish-Lebanese woman whose life and family history mirrors the story of America. Both sides of Rita's family came to the United States in the golden years of immigra-tion, which we see beautifully rendered in the first part of the novel, and in her home north of Boston Rita grows into a stubborn,...

Immigrating to America, a young girl navigates between her family's Bengali traditions and her new country's culture.

Arriving at a mysterious enclave called The Sea, Lina navigates shifting realities where she converses with historical thinkers across centuries, confronting memory, history and her father's troubling past as she searches for understanding, responsibility and the meaning of home in a world of political upheaval.

After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai is forced to flee to a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where she must navigate numerous hardships while waiting to be sponsored for entry into America.

Inheriting First Uncle's home after he dies tragically and unexpectedly, eleven-year-old Meixing and her family immigrate to the New Land, where it will take all of Meixing's resilience and bravery to finally find her place of belonging in this new world.

"Disembarking on Ellis Island, Francesca arrives on the shores of America with her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. That same day, aspiring linguist Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center. Ellis, though, is not the refuge it first appears thanks to President Roosevelt's attempts to deter crime. Francesca and Alma will have to rely on each other to escape its corruption and claim the American...

When nine-year-old Li, her mother, and brother Puck arrive from China at Angel Island immigration center in 1921, Li fears she will be deported for failing the tests. Includes historical notes and glossary.