A boy must leave his home and find another. He brings with him a teacup full of earth from the place where he grew up, and sets off to sea. Some

When Papa Rabbit does not return home as expected from many seasons of working in the great carrot and lettuce fields of El Norte, his son Pancho

In war-torn Poland in 1870, ten-year-old Leo, the oldest of nine children of impoverished parents, sets out to earn a living, hoping one day to h

Having faced great danger, twelve-year-old Manuel finally succeeds in hopping a train out of Mexico but after reuniting with his brother in Los A

"A girl reframes the dangerous border crossing between Mexico and the United States as a game to help her brother through the journey"--

Continues the adventures of fifteen-year-old Maura, her younger brother Patrick, a young stowaway, and some unusual characters as they sail from

In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach

Early in the twentieth century, Nathan embarks on a voyage from Russia to New York City hoping to become an opera singer, and works hard while mi

In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in