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81) The midnight zoo
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Noura and her family, fleeing war in Syria, have been granted asylum in the United States, but they arrive in Florida to the chaos of the president's Muslim ban; twelve-year-old Jordyn is a member of the Christian church that is sponsoring the Alwan family, and Noura's student ambassador in middle school; their inevitable culture clash is made far worse by the wave of hate crimes unleashed by the Muslim ban, and personal problems of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...
84) Last flight
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon’s surrender to the North Vietnamese Army. Kristen Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of the decision to flee from the perspective of someone eight years old; Playing a game of space-explorers to protect herself and her sister’s eyes from tear...
Author
Publisher
POW!
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young refugee living in America learns to see herself as beautiful, in spite of physical and emotional scars from her troubled homeland, thanks to a gifted teacher. Spectacularly Beautiful tells the story of Shahad, a refugee who has moved to a new country and started at a new school with her new teacher, Ms. Truong. Shahad comes to school every day with perfectly braided hair tied in ribbons. But her hair can't hide the scars on her face and leg...
87) Wherever I go
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Of all her friends, Abia has been at the Shimelba Refugee Camp the longest—seven years, four months, and sixteen days. Papa says that’s too long and they need a forever home. Until then, though, Abia has something important to do. Be a queen. Sometimes she’s a noisy queen, banging on her drum as she and Mama wait in the long line for rice to cook for dinner. Sometimes she’s a quiet queen, cuddling her baby cousin to sleep while Auntie is away...
88) Nowhere boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a Palestinian family’s ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye. It’s 1967 in Nablus, Palestine. Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp where she lives. Each harvest, she and her mama pick the small fruits and she eagerly stomp stomp stomps on them to release their golden oil. Olives have always tied her family to the land, as Oraib learns from the...
91) Marwan's journey
Author
Publisher
Minedition published by Michael Neugebauer Publishing, Ltd
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"One night they came ... The darkness grew colder, deeper, darker, and swallowed up everything ... Marwan is a young boy on a journey he never intended to take, bound for a place he doesn't know. On his journey, he relies on courage and memories of his faraway homeland to buoy him. With him are hundreds and thousands of other human beings, crossing the deserts and the seas, fleeing war and hunger in search of safety. He must take one step after another--bringing...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on the childhood experiences of the author’s mother, this story of family, immigration, and identity shows the boundless power of love. Vienna, Austria, is the only home Rosa knows. While her parents work at their store, she plays with her grandmother, reads her favorite books, and climbs trees. But when the Nazis arrive in 1938, everything changes. Rosa’s family is Jewish, and the Nazis’ new laws make it dangerous for Jews to live...
93) The paper boat
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Thao Lam’s signature collage art tells the wordless story of one family’s escape from Vietnam—a journey intertwined with an ant colony’s parallel narrative. At her home in Vietnam, a girl rescues ants from the sugar water set out to trap them. Later, when the girl’s family flees war-torn Vietnam, ants lead them through the moonlit jungle to the boat that will take them to safety. Before boarding, the girl folds a paper boat from a bun wrapper...
Author
Publisher
Edelvives
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
A boy, living in the desert, draws pictures of the sea in the sand because he doesn't have any colored pencils or paper.
"El abuelo dice que el mar es azul. Yo nunca lo he visto. Pero lo he dibujado en la arena. Mi mar no es azul. Es del mismo color que las cabras y los camellos: del color de la arena. Dice también el abuelo que el día que yo vea el mar, podré pintarlo de azul, y que ese día seremos libres." --From publisher's desciption.
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
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A day in the life of an Afghan refugee child and their family, where every moment revolves around love, family, and the carpet that connects them to home.
"This poignant story, about an Afghan refugee child and the family carpet that connects them to home, inspires readers to live and learn in love, not fear We sip our tea and talk together, Ruby cushions of goose feather. The carpet is for sitting. The Carpet follows a day in the life of an Afghan...
97) I am both
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book inspired by the author's family's journey on the last flight out of Saigon, I Am Both is a compelling exploration of identity, immigration, and family. We zip through the city listening to the music of the street. I hear the swish swoosh of the baskets and the clink clank of the passing bikes. For Hương, life in Saigon, Vietnam is mostly normal—at least, as normal as it can be while a war is going on. But when her family decides...
98) The war below
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and forced him into a labor camp. Now, Luka has smuggled himself out -- even though he left behind his dearest friend, Lida. Someday, he vows, he'll find her again. But first, he must survive. Racing through the woods and mountains, Luka evades capture by both Nazis and Soviet agents. Then he meets up with an underground army whose members are fighting Nazis and Soviets alike. But the desperate rescues...
99) Wild poppies
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two brothers fight to reunite amidst the turmoil of the Syrian War. Since the passing of their father, Omar has tried—and in his little brother Sufyan’s eyes, failed—to be the man of his family of Syrian refugees. As Omar waits in line for rations, longing for the books he left behind when his family fled their home, Sufyan explores more nontraditional methods to provide for his family. Ignoring his brother’s warnings, Sufyan gets more and...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Azra knows that wherever she goes, her doll Gurya will follow. Even if it’s on a train that will take her far away from the house her family has lived in for generations. Even if there is a new flag flying in Dehradun, and no place left in it for Azra. At least she will be taking a piece of home with her. But when Abba comes home and says they must leave right now, Gurya gets left behind in the scramble. Will Azra be strong enough to face the long...
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