Anna is the child of Mennonites from Mexico, who have come north to harvest fruit and vegetables. Sometimes she feels like a bird, flying north in the spring and south in the fall, sometimes like a jackrabbit in an abandoned burrow, since her family occupies an empty farmhouse near the fields, sometimes like a kitten, as she shares a bed with her sisters . . . But above all Anna wonders what it would be like to be a tree rooted deeply in the earth, watching the seasons come and go, instead of being like a “feather in the wind.”
Why I like this book: Migrant tells the story of a child as a migrant. This is something children are aware of this issue. This book doesn’t focus on the reason the family is leaving but more about what the transition they experience. This makes the book applicable to lots of different children from lots of different places who experience similar transitions.
Windows & Mirrors 