‘Journey to America’ is a NonFiction Illustrated book that highlights immigrants that have been influential within Science, Entertainment, Politics, and Business. It also highlights influential people who are children of immigrants. 

This was a great insight into the multitude of immigrants that have helped shape and build the USA. I recognised some of the people in here but a lot of this was new information and I love expanding my knowledge and learning about important people. In between the biographies, there are short infographics about different aspects of migration and different movements related to migration. These were really fun and very educational. 

At the end, the author provides a mini citisenship test using sample questions so the reader can get a little insight of what is asked. This was fun for me but I failed every question as I know nothing about US history. This book was an excellent insight into the value of immigration and highlighted many people that I will be researching further. I love this genre of book and I really wish I’d had access to this information when I was younger, it would have been very inspiring. 

Representation - Black; Chinese; Congonese; Cuban; Gay; Hijabi; Immigrant; Indian; Indonesian; Jamaican; Jewish; Kenyan; Latina; Muslim; Pakistani; POC; Refugee; Somali; South African; Thai-Chinese

TWs/CWs - Abandonment; Civil War; Colourism; COVID-19; Death of a Parent; Divorce; Internalised Racism; Lynching; Nazis; Racism; Skin Bleaching; Slavery; War