This list includes book titles related to immigration and refugees. Most of these titles can be found in either Musselman Library’s juvenile collection (4th floor) or in the Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center. To see the full catalog record of each item and its exact location, click on the book’s title. In addition, the cover image, when available, is clickable and often leads to useful information about the book. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction, and for age levels ranging from children to adolescents. If a particular title is unavailable here, consider checking the OhioLINK catalog to see if a copy can be borrowed from another library.
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All the lights in the night / Arthur A. Levine ; pictures by James E. Ransome. |
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The always prayer shawl / by Sheldon Oberman ; illustrated by Ted Lewin |
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Always remember me : how one family survived World War II / by Marisabina Russo |
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America, my new home : poems / by Monica Gunning ; illustrations by Ken Condon |
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American eyes : new Asian-American short stories for young adults / edited by Lori M. Carlson ; introduction by Cynthia Kadohata |
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Angel child, dragon child / story by Michele Maria Surat ; pictures by Vo-Dinh Mai |
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The angel with a mouth-organ / Christobel Mattingley ;illustrated by Astra Lacis |
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An Mei's strange and wondrous journey / by Stephan Molnar-Fenton ; illustrated by Vivienne Flesher |
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Anna's goat / written by Janice Kulyk Keefer ; illustrated by Janet Wilson |
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An Armenian family / by Keith Elliot Greenberg |
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The arrival / Shaun Tan |
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Asian Indian Americans / by Alexandra Bandon |
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Asian Indians / Susan Gordon ; consultant, Roger Daniels |
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Aunt Lilly's laundromat / Melanie Hope Greenberg |
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The belonging place / Jean Little |
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Between two worlds / Joan Lingard |
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Blue jasmine / Kashmira Sheth |
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A boat to nowhere / by Maureen Crane Wartski ; illustrated by Dick Teicher |
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The bone collector's son / Paul Yee |
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The boy and the wall / [written by Amahl Bishara ; drawings by Linda al-Azzeh ... [et al.]] |
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Bread and roses, too / by Katherine Paterson |
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Brothers in hope : the story of the Lost Boys of Sudan / by Mary Williams ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie |
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Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America / Gurinder Singh Mann, Paul David Numrich & Raymond B. Williams |
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Chang's paper pony / by Eleanor Coerr ; pictures by Deborah Kogan Ray |
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Children of Kampuchea : their nightmares and dreams / International Rescue Committee ; photographs by Amy Mellencamp |
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Children of the Maya : a Guatemalan Indian odyssey / Brent Ashabranner ; photographs by Paul Conklin |
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Chinese / Jodine Mayberry |
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Chinese Americans / by Alexandra Bandon |
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The Chinese Americans / William Daley |
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Chinese migrations / Judith Kendra |
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The Christmas cobwebs / Odds Bodkin ; illustrated by Terry Widener |
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The color of home / Mary Hoffman ; pictures by Karin Littlewood |
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Creativity / by John Steptoe ; illustrations by E.B. Lewis |
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Crutches / Peter Härtling ; translated from the German by Elizabeth D. Crawford |
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Cubans / Barbara Grenquist ; consultant, Roger Daniels |
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The day the animals came : a story of Saint Francis Day / by Frances Ward Weller ; illustrated by Loren Long |
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Displaced person / Maria Halun Bloch ; decorations by Allen Davis |
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Eastern Europeans / Jodine Mayberry ; consultant, Roger Daniels |
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Ellis Island : gateway to the New World / Leonard Everett Fisher |
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Ellis Island : new hope in a new land / William Jay Jacobs |
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An Eritrean family / by Lois Anne Berg |
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Escape from Saigon : how a Vietnam War orphan became an American boy / Andrea Warren |
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Faraway home / Jane Kurtz ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis |
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A faraway island / Annika Thor ; translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck |
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Filipino Americans / by Alexandra Bandon |
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Filipinos / Jodine Mayberry ; consultant, Roger Daniels |
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Four feet, two sandals / written by Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed ; illustrated by Doug Chayka |
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Gleam and Glow / written by Eve Bunting ; illustrated by Peter Sylvada |
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Grab hands and run / Frances Temple |
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Grandfather counts / by Andrea Cheng ; illustrations by Ange Zhang |
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Grandfather's journey / written and illustrated by Allen Say |
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Growing up in coal country / Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
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A Guatemalan family / by Michael Malone |
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Guttersnipe / Jane Cutler ; pictures by Emily Arnold McCully |
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A Haitian family / by Keith Elliot Greenberg |
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Halmoni and the picnic / Sook Nyul Choi ; illustrated by Karen M. Dugan |
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Hanna's Christmas / by Melissa Peterson ; illustrated by Melissa Iwai |
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Hector lives in the United States now : the story of a Mexican-American child / by Joan Hewett ; photographs by Richard Hewett |
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Hidden riches / by H. Romaine Stauffer |
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The history of emigration from Italy / Katherine Prior |
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A Hmong family / by Nora Murphy |
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A house of tailors / Patricia Reilly Giff |
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How I learned geography / Uri Shulevitz |
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I am David / Anne Holm ; translated from the Danish by L.W. Kingsland |
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--if your name was changed at Ellis Island / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Wayne Parmenter |
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Immigrant girl : Becky of Eldridge Street / by Brett Harvey ; illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray |
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Immigration and American religion / Jenna Weissman Joselit |
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Immigration : blessing or burden? / Robert Morrow |
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In America / written & illustrated by Marissa Moss |
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The Irish-American experience / by Seamus Cavan ; consultant, James Shenton |
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I was dreaming to come to America : memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project / selected and illustrated by Veronica Lawlor ; foreword by Rudolph W. Giuliani |
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Journey home / by Lawrence McKay, Jr. ; illustrated by Dom & Keunhee Lee |
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The journey that saved Curious George : the true wartime escape of Margret and H.A. Rey / by Louise Borden ; illustrated by Allan Drummond |
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Journey to Ellis Island : how my father came to America / by Carol Bierman ; with Barbara Hehner ; illustrated by Laurie McGaw |
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Jyoti's journey / by Helen Ganly |
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Katie and the lemon tree / Esther Bender ; illustrated by Joy Dunn Keenan |
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Kindertransport / Olga Levy Drucker |
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Kiss the dust / Elizabeth Laird |
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Korean Americans / by Alexandra Bandon |
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Koreans / Jodine Mayberry ; consultant, Roger Daniels |
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Leaving Glorytown : one boy's struggle under Castro / Eduardo F. Calcines |
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Leaving Vietnam : the journey of Tuan Ngo, a boat boy / by Sarah S. Kilborne ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet |
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Letters from Italy / written and illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher |
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A Liberian family / by Stephen Chicoine |
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Lily's crossing / Patricia Reilly Giff |
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The lucky ones : five journeys toward a home / by Elizabeth Coatsworth ; illustrated by Janet Doyle |
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Mama and Papa have a store / story and pictures by Amelia Lau Carling |
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Mexican Americans / by Alexandra Bandon |
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Mexicans / Jodine Mayberry ; consultant, Roger Daniels |
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A Mien family / by Sara Gogol |
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Molly's pilgrim / by Barbara Cohen ; illustrated by Daniel Mark Duffy |
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Mountain light / Laurence Yep |
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My diary from here to there / story, Amada Irma Pérez ; illustrations, Maya Christina Gonzalez = Mi diario de aquí hasta allá / cuento, Amada Irma Pérez ; ilustraciones, Maya Christina Gonzalez |
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My name is Sangoel / written by Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed ; illustrated by Catherine Stock |
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Nell Dunne, Ellis Island, 1904 / by Kathleen Duey |
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One boy from Kosovo / Trish Marx ; photographs by Cindy Karp |
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One green apple / by Eve Bunting ; illustrated by Ted Lewin |
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On the wings of eagles : an Ethiopian boy's story / by Jeffrey Schrier |
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Oranges on Golden Mountain / by Elizabeth Partridge ; illustrated by Aki Sogabe |
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The other side of truth / Beverley Naidoo |
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Painted words ; Spoken memories / Aliki |
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Passage to freedom : the Sugihara story / written by Ken Mochizuki ; illustrated by Dom Lee ; afterword by Hiroki Sugihara |
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A piece of home / Sonia Levitin ; pictures by Juan Wijngaard |
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A place for Joey / Carol Flynn Harris |
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The rainbow tulip / by Pat Mora ; illustrated by Elizabeth Sayles |
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Refugees / Linda Hitchcox |
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René has two last names / by René Colato Laínez ; illustrations by Fabiola Graullera Ramírez = René tiene dos apellidos / por René Colato Laínez ; ilustraciones por Fabiola Graullera Ramírez |
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Russian immigrants, 1860-1915 / by Helen Frost |
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A Russian Jewish family / by Jane Mersky Leder |
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Sam Ellis's Island / by Beatrice Siegel ; illustrated by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan |
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Sara's trek / Florence Schloneger ; [illustrated by Sidney Quinn] |
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The Scots and Scotch-Irish in America / James E. Johnson |
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Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924 / Deborah Hopkinson |
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The story of my life : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky / by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary |
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The storyteller's candle / story, Lucía González ; illustrations, Lulu Delacre = La velita de los cuentos / Cuento, Lucía González ; ilustraciones, Lulu Delacre |
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A Sudanese family / by Erika F. Archibald |
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The Sudan Project : rebuilding with the people of Darfur : a young person's guide / Melissa Leembruggen |
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Tales from Gold Mountain : stories of the Chinese in the New World / by Paul Yee ; paintings by Simon Ng |
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Tea with milk / Allen Say |
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They sought a new world : the story of European immigration to North America / paintings and comments by William Kurelek ; additional text by Margaret S. Engelhart |
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To dance at the Palais Royale / Janet McNaughton |
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Together in Pinecone Patch / Thomas F. Yezerski |
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To life / Ruth Minsky Sender |
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To seek a better world : the Haitian minority in America / Brent Ashabranner ; photographs by Paul Conklin |
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Two lands, one heart : an American boy's journey to his mother's Vietnam / Jeremy Schmidt, Ted Wood ; photographs by Ted Wood |
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Uncle Jacob's ghost story / Donn Kushner |
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Under the persimmon tree / Suzanne Fisher Staples |
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Vietnamese Americans / by Alexandra Bandon |
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Waiting for mama / by Marietta Moskin ; illustrated by Richard Lebenson |
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The walking stick / by Maxine Trottier ; illustrated by Annouchka Gravel Galouchko |
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Watch the stars come out / Riki Levinson ; illustrated by Diane Goode |
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We are all Americans : understanding diversity / [by Joy Masoff] |
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We are a rainbow / written and illustrated by Nancy María Grande Tabor |
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West coast Chinese boy / Sing Lim |
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The West Indian-American experience / by Warren J. Halliburton |
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When this world was new / by D.H. Figueredo ; illustrated by Enrique O. Sanchez |
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The whispering cloth : a refugee's story / written by Pegi Deitz Shea ; illustrated by Anita Riggio ; stitched by You Yang |
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Who belongs here? : an American story / Margy Burns Knight ; illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien |
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Xochitl and the flowers / story, Jorge Argueta ; illustrations, Carl Angel = Xóchitl, la niña de las flores / cuento, Jorge Argueta ; ilustraciones, Carl Angel |
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Yang the second and her secret admirers / Lensey Namioka ; illustrated by Kees de Kiefte |
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Yang the youngest and his terrible ear / Lensey Namioka ; illustrated by Kees de Kiefte |