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Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Elliott Young focuses on five stories, including Chinese detained off the coast of Washington in the late 1880s, an "insane" Russian-Brazilian Jew caught on a ship shuttling between New York and South America during World War I, Japanese Peruvians kidnapped and locked up in a Texas jail during World War II, a prison uprising by Mariel Cuban refugees in 1987, and a Salvadoran mother who grew up in the United States and has spent years incarcerated while fighting deportation. 

This audiobook version asks what's the secret to playing the violin beautifully? The golden cricket knows - but before Ellie is able to ask, the cricket escapes! With the help of a shy friend and her three spunky pups, Ellie encounters nature's colorful surprises as she searches for the easy solution to a squeaky violin.