In a small Italian neighborhood in 1953 Delaware, Maddalena Grasso and her family struggle to adapt to life in America as they long for their native country, but when Maddalena falls ill, the family must draw on the strength and faith of their neighbors.

Two men and two women are brought together as they risk their lives to travel across the Strait of Gibraltar in search of a new life in Spain.

Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Europe with Joseph's mother, Lilian, in the hopes of finding gold and new beginnings in mid-nineteenth-century New Zealand.

In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.

Gabriela De la Paz, the teenage daughter in a family of Columbian immigrants to Florida in the 1970s, grows in confidence as she helps her parents and brothers deal with the complexities of their new country.

In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire future, a powerful man run a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-

San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads LuLing's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China-- where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.

After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.

While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young Muslim immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks perfectly complements the other students' red apples.

Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.