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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Prenna, an immigrant who moved to New York when she was twelve, came from another time and she and the other travelers must follow strict rules to avoid destroying the new life they have worked so hard to get, as well as the one person Prenna is desperate to protect.
3) Obsidio
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza--but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion? Meanwhile, Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.
Author
Series
Islands at the end of the world volume 1
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Stranded in Honolulu when a strange cloud causes a worldwide electronics failure, sixteen-year-old Leilani and her father must make their way home to Hilo amid escalating perils, including her severe epilepsy.
7) Tree Girl
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatised sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future.
Author
Publisher
Marshal Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Follows Viola as she survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom and security is hampered by memories of past horrors and the traditions her mother and other Sudanese adults hold dear.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer thatDeo finds renewed hope.
10) Rebel sisters
Author
Series
War girls volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Living a comfortable life in the Space Colonies, Ify, now nineteen and a medical administrator, must return to wartorn Nigeria, where she last saw her sister, to investigate why young refugees from that nation are carrying a deadly virus.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fourteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chip shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken: he was once a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
"This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two...
Author
Series
Out of the Hitler time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Portrays the experiences of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family as they are forced to leave Hitler's Germany to seek refuge in neighboring countries.
"Now a major motion picture, and based on the author’s gripping real-life story, this international bestseller is perfect for Holocaust Remembrance Month. Anna is not sure who Hitler is, but she sees his face on posters all over Berlin. Then one morning, Anna and her brother awake to find...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Peque na has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But, none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala...
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