Looking for books that highlight immigrant and refugee experiences? ourBRIDGE for KIDS has curated a collection centering the immigrant and multicultural experience. Explore and purchase these books at That’s Novel Books in Charlotte, NC while supplies last!
Nonfiction Books
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming
Invisible and Voiceless: The Struggle of Mexican Americans for Recognition, Justice, and Equality by Martha Caso
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Feed the Resistance: Recipes + Ideas for Getting Involved by Julia Turshendrea
Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah
Once I Was You by Maria Hinojosa
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero
Somewhere We Are Human by Reyna Grande
They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta
American Like Me by America Ferrera
Fiction Books
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Exit West by Mohsin Ahmad
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
If I Tell You The Truth by Jasmin Kaur
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
Children & Middle-Grade Books
The Journey by Francesca Sanna
The Name Jar by Yanksook Choi
Chachaji’s Cup by Uma Krishnaswami
My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits
My Name Was Hussein by Hristo Kyuchukov
Teacup by Rebecca Young
Going Home, Coming Home by Truong Tran
Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation by Edwidge Danticat
Two White Rabbits by Jario Buitrago
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote A Migrant’s Tale by Duncan Tonatiuh
Somos Como Las Nubes (We Are Like the Clouds) by Jorge Argueta
Eleven Words for Love: A Journey through Arabic Expressions of Love by Randa Abdel-Fattah
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed