16 Best nonfiction books like Belonging in America and Mexico (Our Stories Carried Us Here) by Daniel Zuniga Gonzalez

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Belonging in America and Mexico (Our Stories Carried Us Here)

By: Daniel Zuniga Gonzalez

3.67

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully illustrated graphic novel that explores what it means to belong in Mexico and in Amer…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Belonging in America and Mexico (Our Stories Carried Us Here) by Daniel Zuniga Gonzalez , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

By: Brené Brown

4.13

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we k… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"When we're suffering, may of us are better at causing pain than feeling it. We spread hurt rather than let it inside."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"(Quoting Viola Davis) I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in…"

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

2. Forget Me Not

By: Ellie Terry

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A girl with Tourette syndrome starts a new school and tries to hide her quirks in this debut middle… read more

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3. Ban This Book

By: Alan Gratz

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Sta… read more

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"Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person"

-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

"She was disappointed, I could tell, and suddenly the only thing I wanted in the world was to please her."

-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

4. The Heist (Gabriel Allon, #14)

By: Daniel Silva

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

A fallen spyA missing masterpiece A daring mission The Heist Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel… read more

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5. When Stars Are Scattered

By: Victoria Jamieson

4.62

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Heartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up in a refugee c… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
"Pass or fail—I’ve done my best. It’s in God’s hands now."

-Victoria Jamieson, When Stars Are Scattered

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6. A First Time for Everything

By: Dan Santat

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
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7. Whereabouts

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.77

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more

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"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

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8. Dreamers

By: Yuyi Morales

4.43

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story in this picture-book tribute to the transformative pow… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

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  • graphic novels
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

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11. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.11

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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12. 鬼滅の刃 9 [Kimetsu no Yaiba 9]

By: Koyoharu Gotouge

4.55

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

“音柱”宇髄天元と共に鬼の棲む遊郭へ向かった炭治郎たち。そこではくノ一である天元の妻3人が、情報収集中に連絡を絶っていた。調査のため炭治郎たちは女装して潜入するが、鬼の居場所は掴めなかった。そんな中… read more

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  • graphic novels
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13. Answers in the Pages

By: David Levithan

4.32

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A bold, timely novel about speaking up and coming out as parents lobby to ban a beloved book from t… read more

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"We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us."

-David Levithan, Answers in the Pages

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14. Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley

4.34

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more

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"Some friendships can endure anything."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

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15. Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria

By: Muhammad Najem

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A teenage boy risks his life to tell the truth in this gripping graphic memoir by youth activist Mu… read more

Similar categories in Muhammad Najem's Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria book and Daniel Zuniga Gonzalez's Belonging in America and Mexico (Our Stories Carried Us Here)

  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
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16. The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)

By: Kwame Alexander

4.32

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award win… read more

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"A family tie is like the river. It can bend, but it cannot break."

-Kwame Alexander, The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)

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17. The Things She's Seen

By: Ambelin Kwaymullina

3.80

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her dad is drowning in grief. He… read more

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"My science teacher said that just because two things happened together didn't mean one was because of the other, or as she put it: correlation does not imply causation."

-Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Things She's Seen

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18. Call Me American: A Memoir

By: Abdi Nor Iftin

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of a boy living in war-torn Somalia who escapes to America--first by way … read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Iveliz Explains It All

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Library Binding

How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while f… read more

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"and it's important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help- ask for love."

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"But you have to be somewhere I can find. You understand? Somewhere I can find. I nod, because I know what he is saying and what he is not saying. He can't find me if I'm not here. (p. 113 of the hard…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"I am not okay, and sometimes I wish people wouldn't believe me when I say I am. I wish they would ask, just one more time, and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me like I'm a poem, so I could show t…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

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20. We Are All So Good at Smiling

By: Amber McBride

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more

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"Sorrow is no one's fault."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"The only way out is through."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

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21. Button Pusher

By: Tyler Page

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A memoir-driven realistic graphic novel about Tyler, a child who is diagnosed with ADHD and has to … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
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22. Magnolia Flower

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.15

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a moving adaptation by National B… read more

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23. Maybe an Artist

By: Liz Montague

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir from one of the first Black female cartoonists to be pub… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
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24. Wonder Woman Tempest Tossed

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

3.94

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak, Shout) and artist Leila del Duca re… read more

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  • graphic novels
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25. Harvest House

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith delivers a thril… read more

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"In the gutter atop the empty, boarded-up building on my side of the road, Mourning Doves sense my dread and shudder in a cozy nest tucked in the gutter. Their kin have flown to warmer, brighter skies…"

-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Harvest House

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26. Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game (Graphic Novel Memoir)

By: Colin Kaepernick

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Colin Change the Game is an inspiring high school graphic novel memoir for readers 12 and up from … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
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27. Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States (Spanish and English Edition)

By: Warren Binford

4.67

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The Testimony of Children A moving picture book for older children and families that introduces a … read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Voice for Refuge (Our Stories Carried us Here)

By: Zaynab Abdi

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Zaynab Abdi, emerging global leader, chronicles her journey, from Somalia to Yemen and Egypt, and u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Belonging in America and Mexico (Our Stories Carried Us Here)

By: Daniel Zuniga Gonzalez

3.67

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully illustrated graphic novel that explores what it means to belong in Mexico and in Amer… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
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30. Our Stories Carried Us Here

By: Julie Vang

4.24

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unconventional collection of first-person stories told and illustrated by immigrants and… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions by Richard Turere

31. Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions

By: Richard Turere

4.34

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Children’s Africana Book Award (CABA), which is awarded by The Center for Africa… read more

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  • nonfiction

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Victoria Jamieson

4.62

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4.39

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Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

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4.55

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Alys Arden

3.80

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Mariko Tamaki

3.41

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Danielle Paige

3.37

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Kami Garcia

3.52

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