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Immigration and Citizenship: Reading Recommendations

This guide provides the resources, both print and online, for the path to citizenship. Browse the resources below or check your Delaware Public Library shelves in the following area: 342.73.

Picture Books about Immigration

The Arabic Quilt by Aya Khalil; Anait Semirdzhyan (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780884487548

Publication Date: 2020-02-18
The Day War Came by Nicola Davies; Rebecca Cobb (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781536201734

Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz by Warren Binford (Compiled by); Michael Garcia Bochenek (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781523513482

Publication Date: 2021-04-13
Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers; Shawn Harris (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781452162812

Publication Date: 2017-09-19
The Home We Make by Maham Khwaja; Daby Zainab Faidhi (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781620149577

Publication Date: 2024-10-08
The Journey by Francesca Sanna
ISBN: 9781909263994

Publication Date: 2016-09-13
La Frontera by Alfredo Alva; Deborah Mills; Claudia Navarro (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781782853886

Publication Date: 2018-05-01
Lolo's Sari-Sari Store by Sophia N. Lee; Christine Almeda (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781534494473

Publication Date: 2023-08-01
Mama's Nightingale by Edwidge Danticat; Leslie Staub (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525428091

Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Mango Moon by Diane de Anda; Sue Cornelison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780807549575

Publication Date: 2019-04-01
Marwan's Journey by Patricia De Arias; Laura Borràs (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9789888341559

Publication Date: 2018-05-01
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
ISBN: 9780375806131

Publication Date: 2001-07-10
The Notebook Keeper by Stephen Briseño; Magdalena Mora (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780593307052

Publication Date: 2022-06-28
A Star Shines Through by Anna Desnitskaya
ISBN: 9780802856319

Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Stepping Stones / حَصى الطُرُقات by Margriet Ruurs; Nizar Ali Badr (Artist); Falah Raheem (Translator)
ISBN: 9781459814905

Publication Date: 2016-10-18
Sugar in Milk by Thrity Umrigar; Khoa Le (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780762495191

Publication Date: 2020-10-06
Tani's New Home by Tanitoluwa Adewumi; Michelle Lord (As told to); Courtney Dawson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781400218288

Publication Date: 2020-11-24
Where Butterflies Fill the Sky by Zahra Marwan
ISBN: 9781547606511

Publication Date: 2022-03-29
Where Will I Live? by Rosemary McCarney
ISBN: 9781772600285

Publication Date: 2017-04-04
Wishes by Muon Thi Van; Victo Ngai (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781338305890

Publication Date: 2021-05-04

Teen Books about Immigration

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
ISBN: 9780593202340

Publication Date: 2022-03-01
The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
ISBN: 9781335402509

Publication Date: 2021-10-05
Indivisible by Daniel Aleman
ISBN: 9780759556058

Publication Date: 2021-05-04
Love in English by Maria E. Andreu
ISBN: 9780062996510

Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp
ISBN: 9780316460279

Publication Date: 2021-04-06
Where I Belong by Marcia Argueta Mickelson
ISBN: 9781541597976

Publication Date: 2021-09-07

Adult Books about Immigration

The Deportation Machine by Adam Goodman
ISBN: 9780691204208

Publication Date: 2021-09-14
My Side of the River by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
ISBN: 9781250277954

Publication Date: 2024-02-13
The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin
ISBN: 9781250179821

Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Desperately Seeking Asylum by Helen T. Boursier
ISBN: 9781538128336

Publication Date: 2019-11-19
Separated by Jacob Soboroff
ISBN: 9780062992192

Publication Date: 2020-07-07
Solito: a Read with Jenna Pick by Javier Zamora
ISBN: 9780593498064

Publication Date: 2022-09-06
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
ISBN: 9780399592683

Publication Date: 2020-03-24
Migranthood by Lauren Heidbrink
ISBN: 9781503612075

Publication Date: 2020-04-28
Abolish ICE by Natascha Elena Uhlmann
ISBN: 9781949017212

Publication Date: 2019-10-01
We Are Home by Ray Suarez
ISBN: 9780316353762

Publication Date: 2024-04-23
Crossing by Rebecca Hamlin
ISBN: 9781503627871

Publication Date: 2021-05-11
American Intolerance by Robert E. Bartholomew; Anja E. Reumschuessel
ISBN: 9781633884489

Publication Date: 2018-10-23
Not a Nation of Immigrants by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
ISBN: 9780807036297

Publication Date: 2021-08-24
American Dreaming by Sarah J. Mahler
ISBN: 0691037825

Publication Date: 1995-11-05
Unbuild Walls by Silky Shah; Amna A. Akbar (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9798888900840

Publication Date: 2024-05-07
A Nation of Nations by Tom Gjelten
ISBN: 9781476743851

Publication Date: 2015-09-15