27 Books to Help Kids Understand the Immigrant Experience

Parents need to know that The Joy Luck Club weaves the stories of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their four daughters into a richly satisfying novel. The mothers' experiences in China inform how they bring up their daughters in America, and the girls must figure out how to navigate their own lives, drawing on what they have gleaned from their Old World mothers and their American childhoods. Mothers and daughters of all cultures will appreciate the miscommunication, heartache, and unconditional love that flow through the novel. (It's been translated into 35 languages.) You may want to check out the 1993 film version.