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A rainy walk turns into a close-up encounter with migrating toads and people helping them cross a road towards ponds. The book joins a family story with information about migration and human-made roads.

A family’s wartime departure from Florence brings Renato’s attachment to home into focus.

Anna’s family travels to Canada for seasonal farm work, and Anna imagines what it would be like to have a settled home. The story connects her personal feelings with the wider experience of migrant workers.

Victor’s search for work becomes a struggle to survive, shaped by his responsibility to his family and his friendship with Rico. The journey brings him into contact with smugglers and the risks of crossing the border.

This is a maths-and-nature book: animal migrations provide contexts for learning place value and practising addition and subtraction with three-digit numbers. Visuals guide readers through the maths problems.

This is a family-centred story about migration, bereavement and belonging, with Sophie’s own growth alongside Pedro’s uncertain future. A refugee’s experience is also part of the family’s story.

This illustrated family-history story traces Jewish roots through generations and connects them with African-American and Geechee heritage. A recurring Friday-night candle-lighting tradition remembers the family’s Jewish ancestry.

A broad historical survey combines movement, conflict and individual lives, including artists, workers and people challenging racial exclusion.

A broad introduction to the role of machines in daily life, the rise of factories and the shift towards computer-directed production.

A concise introduction to Nigerian American lives, linking migration and cultural interaction with modern Nigerian history and present-day issues.

A reported account of two brothers’ migration and attempts to settle in California, set alongside a broader look at Central American child migration and US immigration policy.

This is a mystery driven by an investigation, uncertain trust and danger to Connie. Its premise also brings workplace upheaval and Maria’s precarious position into the story.

Art is shown as both a passion and a developing practice: Wong makes time to create while working nights as a janitor, then gets the chance to contribute to Bambi.

A compact factual guide to the Statue of Liberty’s making and upkeep, with attention to its design details as well as its public meaning. A timeline and visiting section broaden the focus beyond construction.

A historical coming-of-age story about a family’s separation and a young person adapting to a new country, culture and language.

This is a historical story of survival and displacement, told through Devorah’s experience as she leaves Poland and begins again in South Africa.

This is a contemporary relationship story shaped by differences in family circumstances and by immigration enforcement. Alma and Evan each have ambitions to leave their town, but their relationship confronts them with difficult choices.

A hands-on introduction to food traditions, pairing cooking with stories and facts about immigrant communities and their cuisines.

This is a story about a young person confronting uncertainty over belonging and family security, alongside an urgent journey and a new friendship.

This is a time-travel story that uses six children’s visits to different periods to explore England’s past. History is joined to questions about how people are governed and treated.

This is a documentary-minded history: personal writings sit alongside an account of immigration procedures and the site’s changing role.

This is a family-history journey told by an adopted girl, with migration and travel across Canada at its centre. Place names also serve as vocabulary, so the story has a clear language-learning element.

A bilingual life story linking Cris Plata’s Mexican American family background and migrant farmwork with his development as a musician and his eventual home in Wisconsin.

A compact introduction to ten Canadian nesting birds, combining short sections of factual information with photographs.

Expect a structured debate rather than a single narrative: articles address whether a wall is justified, practical, affordable or preferable to other approaches to immigration and border security.

A story of memory, homesickness and making a life in a new place, told through Grandma Nutcracker's perspective and her advice to a visiting girl.

A family saga shaped around baseball links individual lives with changing American life. The nine-inning structure offers distinct family stories rather than one continuous account of a single protagonist.

This is a historical refugee story centred on a child adapting to a new country while carrying uncertainty about family left behind. It combines moments of welcome with prejudice, rather than presenting refuge as a simple fresh start.

This is a tense journey story centred on two cousins seeking a chance to make their own choices. Jaime’s drawing gives him a personal connection to home as the journey changes what it means to him.

This is a story of a family fleeing discrimination and trying to reach a new home, with Desta taking on greater responsibility after a devastating loss.

A cross-generational mystery unfolds through Henni’s investigation and emails with Leo. Alongside puzzles and friendship, the book examines migration, prejudice, belonging and the pressure placed on people whose home is questioned.

This is an adventure about enterprise, public disagreement and personal consequences. Jacky’s attempt to reshape the Pig and Whistle Inn into a musical-theatre venue brings her into conflict with temperance campaigners, local tensions and the law.

This is a high-stakes survival story about three teenagers fleeing danger, with friendship and hope providing emotional counterweights to fear, loss and an uncertain journey.

This is a fast-moving flight narrative that combines danger, travel and comic mishaps. Its central perspective brings migration, residence in Germany and fear of deportation into an adventure about an unlikely friendship.

This is a historical diary about a family trying to remain together amid Gold Rush hardship. It offers domestic perspective as well as danger, grief and ethical choices, with a generally bleak atmosphere and attention to friendship over sudden wealth.

Expect an outward-looking wilderness adventure that moves from wildlife and sea-kayaking to suspense involving a ship and possible migrant smuggling. Aaron’s crush, family comparisons and changing relationships add a personal strand.

Expect a multi-strand teen story combining nanny responsibilities, celebrity surroundings, romantic entanglements and family insecurity.

This is a historical story about children managing family responsibilities and practical work during a storm, while also facing uncertainty about illness, separation and an immigrant family’s future.

Expect an introductory historical account centred on the Völkerwanderung, with the subject presented as a children’s knowledge book rather than a fictional story.

A reflective coming-of-age story about discovering family roots and negotiating more than one sense of home. Its strongest elements are relationships, vivid place-writing, cultural encounter and questions of identity.

This is a discussion-led introduction to the relationship between race, crime and public institutions, asking readers to question assumptions in headlines and consider how different systems and viewpoints shape understanding.

Choose this for a lively introduction to friendship across backgrounds, immigration and language. Expect a parade of character introductions, bright detailed illustrations and memorable sayings more than a sustained adventure.

A good choice for discussing how an apparently exciting journey can become exhausting and dangerous, while relationships and shared celebrations help people endure prolonged hardship.

This is a fantasy comic about belonging, hidden identity and courage, combining school life with battles against other-dimensional enemies. Its Christian storyline gives forgiveness and new life a prominent place.

A fast-moving historical crime novel with alternating viewpoints, moral uncertainty and romantic tension. Caitlin’s determination drives a search through sharply unequal New York, while William’s divided loyalties complicate ideas of justice and personal change.