Bode, Janet. New Kids on the Block: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens. New York: Franklin Watts, 1989. Teenage immigrants from various countries recount the emotional experience of fleeing their homelands and adjusting to a new life in the United States.
Brimner, Larry Dane. A Migrant Family. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1992. The book portrays the life of twelve-year-old Juan Medina and his family, migrant workers living in Encinitas, California.
Cohen, Barbara. Gooseberries to Oranges. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1982. This is a realistic fictional story of a young girl, Fanny, who comes from her cholera-ravaged village in Eastern Europe to America where she is reunited with her father.
Gilpin, Daniel. Penguins: Lifestyle, Habitat, Feeding, Behavior. Bath, UK: Parragon Publishing, 2007. Written by a natural history author, this book explores the lives and natural behaviors of the seventeen species of penguin found in the wild.
Jacobs, William Jay. Ellis Island: New Hope in a New Land. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. The book traces the history of Ellis Island and immigration to America and describes the experiences of immigrants arriving in 1907.
Jimenez, Francisco. "The Circuit" In The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. These are touching reminiscences of Francisco Jimenez about his migrant childhood in California in the late 1940s.
Klingel, Cynthia and Robert B. Noyed. Ellis Island. Chanhassen, Minn.: The Child's World, Inc., 2001. The book briefly describes the history of Ellis Island, what happened there when it was used as an immigration station, and how it came to be a national park in 1965; this is a text for a low reading level; it has photographs of immigrants in the early 1900s and views of Ellis Island today.
Levine, Ellen. …If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1993. This book provides answers in small chapters the titles of which are questions about the process of immigration to America from the 1880s until 1914.
Reimers, David M. A Land of Immigrants, edited by Sandra Stotsky. New York, Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1996. A detailed overview of the history of immigration to America, which is accompanied by documentary photographs of immigrants from different countries and times.
Senker, Cath. Immigrants and Refugees. Milwaukee, WI: World Almanac Library, 2005. This book has many contemporary photographs of refugees and immigrants; it presents many factors surrounding this twenty-first century issue as it explores the history, experiences, and treatment of immigrants and refugees in different countries and examines our changing attitudes toward them; the book has a solid glossary.