World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration

Houston Public Library is one of 15 public libraries around the country chosen to host World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration. Developed by the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, this traveling exhibition is organized according to four main questions:

• Where do we come from?

• Why do we move?

• How does migration change us?

• Where are we going?

By presenting case studies from across human history and an array of cultures, World on the Move invites visitors to recognize that migration is a complex and diverse shared human experience. The exhibition aims to expand the public conversation on the topic of migration and displacement through narrative and interactive displays.

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Picture Books and Kids Fiction

• They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles

• Do I Belong Here? | ¿Es este mi lugar? by René Colato Laínez

• What Is a Refugee? by Elise Gravel

• Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai

• Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

• We Are a Garden: A Story of How Diversity Took Root in America by Lisa Westberg Peters

• A Different Pond by Bao Phi

• Somewhere for Little Bear by Britta Teckentrup

• How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trails of Tears Story by Tim Tingle

Kids Non-Fiction and Biographies

• The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

• Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey to America by Ruth Gruener

• Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II by Albert Marrin

• In the Spirit of a Dream: Thirteen Stories of American Immigrants of Color by Aida Salazar

• Dear America: The Story of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

Teen Fiction and Graphic Novels

• Come On In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home by Adi Alsaid

• Through Fences by Frederick Luis Aldama

• Brighter than the Sun by Daniel Aleman

• Manuelito: A Graphic Novel by Elisa Amado

• Love in English by Maria E. Andreu

• Don't Ask Me Where I'm From by Jennifer De Leon

• Someday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskin

• The Freezies by Farrukh Dhondy

• Lobizona by Romina Garber

• Refugee by Alan Gratz

• Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai

• When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

• Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza

• Bridge Across the Sky by Freeman Ng

• Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera

• We Are Not from Here | No somos de aquí by Jenny Torres Sanchez

• The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

• Game Seven by Paul Volponi

Teen Non-Fiction and Biographies

• The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown

• A Hope More Powerful than the Sea: One Teen Refugee's incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming

• Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

• Call Me American: The Extraordinary True Story of a Young Somali Immigrant by Abdi Nor Iftin

• We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults by Susan Kuklin

• Next Round: A Young Athlete's Journey to Gold by John Spray

• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

• The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border by Juan Pablo Villalobos

Adult Fiction and Graphic Novels

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

• Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict

• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

• Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares

• Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet

• Dominicana by Angie Cruz

• What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

• A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman

• Coleman Hill: A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote

• Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh

• The Leavers by Lisa Ko

• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

• Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah

• The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration by Nnedi Okorafor

• There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes

• Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson

• Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

• My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci

• The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi

• The Next Ship Home by Heather Webb

• Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon

Adult Non-Fiction and Biographies

• The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui

• Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants by George W. Bush

• Deported Americans: Life After Deportation to Mexico by Beth C. Caldwell

• The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

• A Good Provider is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle

• A Hope More Powerful than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming

• Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything is Possible by Stephen Haff

• A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious by Ru'ya Hakkakiyan

• Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

• Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers

• My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines by Efrén C. Olivares

• The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah

• Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century by Sarah Abrevaya Stein

• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

   

Library of Things

• Catan

• Ticket to Ride

• Ticket to Ride: Asia

• Ticket to Ride: First Journey

• Tonie Box: World Stories, Set 1

• Tonie Box, World Stories, Set 2

World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration was developed by the American Anthropological Association, together with the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Smithsonian Exhibits. It is administered by the American Library Association's Public Programs Office. View the exhibition and learn more at https://understandingmigration.org/.