Tell Us We're Home
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work as maids and nannies for their classmates.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: friendship [X], immigrants, social classes, household employees, mothers and daughters, new jersey [X], mother-daughter relationship [X]
Simone Breaks All The Rules
At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things get complicated, and Simone has to decide which rules are worth breaking, and which should just be left alone.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: haitian americans, mother-daughter relationship [X], family life, friendship [X], proms, dating (social customs), new jersey [X], haitian american teenagers, haitian american families, mothers and daughters, best friends