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The Arrival

Title: The Arrival
Author: Shaun Tan
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
ISBN: 0439895294

Recommended for Grades 6 and up
Genre: Fiction-Fantasy

Reader’s Annotation:
Needing to find a better life for his family, one man sets off to a new country. Here he must learn a new language and culture with only the kindness of others to help him through.

Plot Summary:
In this wordless graphic novel, the reader follows the journey of a man as he leaves his home and family to make a new life in a new country and prepares to have his family come and join him. He is overwhelmed by the new culture, language, and way of life. He is assisted by other immigrants and learns why they came to this land. Later, when his family joins him, his daughter is seen assisting a new immigrant find her way as others helped her father.

Evaluation:
By telling the story without words, this book will help teens feel what immigrants feel when they leave their home and family behind to make a new life in a strange land. It will help to teach tolerance for immigrants that they may meet.
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