IMMIGRATION MATRIX - Ohio Literacy Resource Center



IMMIGRATION MATRIX (last updated August 2006)

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|Author |Title |Difficulty |Type |Ethnic |Time |Migrant |

| | | | |Group |Period |Workers |

|Ancona, George |Barrio |Medium |Picture, NF |Latino |20th C | |

|Atkin, S. Beth |Voices from the Fields |Medium, Poetry |Picture, NF |Latino/a |20th C |X |

|Bartoletti, Susan |Black Potatoes |Difficult |NF |Irish |19th C | |

|Bartone, Elisa |Peppe the Lamplighter |Medium |Picture, F |Italian |17th C | |

|Berry, James |Ajeemah and His Son |Medium |YA, F |African | | |

|Bial, Raymond |Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side |Medium |NF |East European |19th/20th C | |

|Blumberg, Rhoda |Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a |Difficult |Photo, NF |Chinese |19th C | |

| |Transcontinental Railroad | | | | | |

|Bunting, Eve |Day’s Work, A |Medium |Picture, F |Latino/a |20th C |X |

|Bunting, Eve |How Many Days to America? |Medium |Picture, F |Latino/a |20th C | |

|Bunting, Eve |I Have an Olive Tree |Medium |Picture, F |Greek |20th C | |

|Bunting, Eve |Picnic in October, A |Medium |Picture, F |European |20th C | |

|Cech, John |My Grandmother’s Journey |Medium |Picture, F |Russian |19th /20th C | |

|Cohn, Diana |Si Se Puede (Yes, We Can!) |Medium |Picture, NF |Latino |20th C |X |

|Connor, Leslie |Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel |Medium |FP |Irish |19th/20th C | |

|Freedman, Russell |Immigrant Kids |Medium |Photos, NF |European |18th C | |

|Freedman, Russell |Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against |Difficult |Photos, NF |Varied |19th C | |

| |Child Labor | | | | | |

|Garland, Sherry |Lotus Seed, The |Easy |Picture |Vietnam |20th C | |

|Herrera, Juan |Calling the Doves |Medium |Bilingual Picture, |Latino/a |20th C |X |

| | |Bilingual | | | | |

|Hest, Amy |When Jessie Came Across the Sea |Medium |Picture, F |European |19th C | |

|Hill, Prescott |Our Century – 1920-1930 |Medium |Picture, NF |Varied |20th C | |

|Hopkinson, Deborah |Shutting Out the Sky |Difficult |Picture, NF |East European |19th/20th C | |

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|Author |Title |Difficulty |Type |Ethnic |Time |Migrant |

| | | | |Group |Period |Workers |

|Jimenez, Francisco |Circuit, The |Difficult |Ya-Bio |Latino/a |20th C |X |

|Jimenez, Francisco |Christmas Gift, The |Medium |Picture Bio |Latino/a |20th C |X |

|Jimenez, Francisco |La Mariposa |Easy |Picture, P |Latino/a |20th C |X |

|Kurelek, William |They Sought a New World |Difficult |Picture,N,F |European |17th/18th C | |

|Mazur, Anne (ed.) |America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of |Difficult |F,SS |Varied |20th C | |

| |Stories | | | | | |

|McGugan, Jim |Josepha |Medium |Picture, F |European |Late 1800’s | |

|Meyer, Carolyn |Rio Grande Stories |Difficult |YA, F |Varied |Present | |

|Mohr, Nicholasa |In Nueve York |Difficult |YA, F |Latino/a |Present | |

|Mora, Pat |My Own True Name |Difficult |Poet, Bilingual |Latino/a |20th C | |

|Mora, Pat |Tomas and the Library Lady |Medium |P, F, Biog |Latino/a |20th C |X |

|Na, An |Step Toward Heaven, A |Difficult |Ya,F |Korean |20th C | |

|Polacco, Patricia |Christmas Tapestry |Medium |Picture, F |European |Present | |

|Rosenberg, Liz |Grandmother and the Runaway Shadow |Medium |Picture,F |Russian |19th C | |

|Say, Allen |Grandfather’s Journey |Medium |Picture, F Bio |Japanese |19th C | |

|Say, Allen |Tea with Milk |Medium |Picture,F Bio |Japanese |20th C | |

|Temple, Frances |Grab Hands and Run |Difficult |Ya,F |Latino/a |Present | |

|Temple, Frances |Tonight, By Sea |Difficult |Ya,F |Haitian |Present | |

|Thomas, AneRush |Lights on the River |Medium |Picture,F |Mexican` |20th C |X |

|Watson, Mary |Butterfly Seeds, The |Medium |Picture,F |European |19th C | |

|Wells, Rosmary |Streets of Gold |Medium |P, F, Bio, |Russian |19th C | |

|Woodruff, Elvira |Memory Coat, The |Medium |Picture, F |Russian |19th C | |

|Yee,Paul |Ghost Train |Medium |Picture, F |Chinese |19th C | |

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