Dive deeper in Sonoma County Library's Together at the Table series by exploring the following materials.
MATERIALS LIST
Explore this topic further through extensive booklists of materials available to check out in the library. Materials are available for kids, families, teens and adults and come in a variety of formats including fiction, nonfiction, picture books, DVDs and graphic novels.
The materials on this list offer people of all ages opportunities to dig deeper into the topic of immigration, to gain an understanding of immigrant and refugee experience from personal experiences of their own immigrant and/or refugee journey, the impacts on their own cultural heritage, how immigration has shaped our nation and continues to be a topic of interest.
NONFICTION
There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration by Ali Noorani
The New Odyssey: the Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley
A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Illegal: reflections of an undocumented immigrant by Jose Angel N.
Ellis Island Interviews: In Their Own Words by Peter Morton Coan
The Death of Josseline by Margaret Regan
The Lost Boys of Sudan by Mark Bixler
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
In the Country We Love: my family divided by Diane Guerrero
FICTION
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
My New American Life by Francine Prose
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
The Book of Unknown Americans by Christina Henriquez
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
What is the What by David EggersTEENS
Refugee by Alan Gratz
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong 
That Thing We Call Heart by Sheba Karim
The Good Braider by Terry Farish
Inside Out and Back Again by Tanhha Lai
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
The Secret Side of Empty by Maria E. Andreu
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez 
Hold Tight, Don't Go: a novel of Haiti by Laura Rose Wagner
The Circuit: stories from thelife of a migrant child by Francisco Jiminez
Breaking Through by Francisco Jiminez 
Reaching Out by Francisco Jiminez
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
This Land is our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne
Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiCHILDREN'S
I'm New Here by Anne Sibley O'Brien
Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago
Where Will I Live? by Rosemary McCarney
Brothers in Hope: the story of the lost boys of Sudan by Mary Williams
Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey by Margriet Ruurs
A Refugee's Journey from Syria by Helen Mason
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale by Duncan Tonatiuh 
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
The Turle of Oman: a novel by Naomi Shihab Nye
A Nation of Immigrants/Una Nacion de Immgrantes by Lorijo Metz
We Came to America by Faith Ringgold 
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin by Duncan Tonatiuh 
Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat MoraDOCUMENTARIES
Documented by Jose Antonio Vargas, CNN
Which Way Home by Rebecca Cammisa, HBO
A Better Life by Chris Weitz, Summit Entertainment
The Other Side of Immigration by Roy Germano
Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary by Arturo Perez Torres, National Geographic
All of Me (Llevate Mis Amores) by Arturo Gonzalez Villasenor, Pimenta Films
Immigration Battle: Inside Washington's Fight over Immigration by Frontline PBS The Together at the Table project was supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
The opinions expressed herein do not reflect the position of the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Srevices, the California State Library, or the Sonoma County Library, and no official endorsement by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, the California State Library, or the Sonoma County Library should be inferred.
