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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
There used to be an empty chair at the back of Mrs. Khan's classroom, but on the third Tuesday of the school year a new kid fills it: nine-year-old Ahmet, a Syrian refugee. The whole class is curious about this new boy--he doesn't seem to smile, and he doesn't talk much. But after learning that Ahmet fled a Very Real War and was separated from his family along the way, a determined group of his classmates bands together to concoct the Greatest Idea...
122) I am David
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
After escaping from an Eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark.
123) The library bus
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Five-year-old Pari accompanies her mother on her library bus rounds for the first time, stopping at a village and a refugee camp so that girls there can exchange books and have a lesson in English. Talking with her mother as they drive, Pari learns that she is lucky that she can attend school the next year. Pari's mother had to learn in secret when it was forbidden to teach girls to read, and the young women the bus visits weekly have no other access...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Forced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi, must confront his painful past"--
When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. In order to save the lives of those he loves, and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy within the militia's ranks and to send dispatches on their plans to the Americans. The jihadists trust...
Author
Series
Friendship matchmaker volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013, ©2012.
Language
English
Description
Lara Zany promised to stop being a friendship matchmaker but when Majur, a refugee from Sudan, transfers to her school and clashes with the school bully, Chris Martin, both boys need her special skills.
126) These olive trees
Author
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
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 stories...
127) The stranded
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the Arcadia. Once a luxurious cruise ship, it became a refugee camp after being driven from Europe by an apocalyptic war. Now it floats near the coastline of the Federated States--a leftover piece of a fractured USA. For forty years, residents of the Arcadia have been prohibited from making landfall. It is a world of extreme haves and have-nots, gangs and make-shift shelters. Esther is a loyal citizen, working flat-out to have the rare...
128) Yara's spring
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother,...
129) In the tunnel
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Myung-gi knows war is coming: War between North and South Korea. Life in communist North Korea has become more and more unbearable-there is no freedom of speech, movement, association, or thought-and his parents have been carefully planning the family's escape. But when his father is abducted by the secret police, all those plans fall apart. How can Myung-gi leave North Korea without his dad? Especially when he believes that the abduction was his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, a spa stay becomes a lot more thrilling when TWO dead bodies are found in this third book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Enola Holmes. Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is ready to enjoy an invigorating trip to a Yorkshire spa, where her widowed mother can take the waters and...
131) El único destino
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
Español
Description
Jaime is sitting on his bed drawing when he hears a scream. Instantly, he knows: Miguel, his cousin and best friend, is dead. Everyone in Jaime's small town in Guatemala knows someone who has been killed by the Alphas, a powerful gang that's known for violence and drug trafficking. Anyone who refuses to work for them is hurt or killed--like Miguel. With Miguel gone, Jaime fears that he is next. There's only one choice: accompanied by his cousin Angela,...
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