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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
3) I am David
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a future where sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, Ron Patterson begins to imagine a stable life for himself, but when political divisions become resurgent, he is suddenly on dangerous and uncertain ground"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful story of empathy, resilience, and the universal need for home and safety, a young refugee must find the courage to venture outside to set a beautiful butterfly free after her brother brings it in from the outside.
11) The stranded
Author
Series
Stranded duology volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Aboard the Arcadia, which was once a luxurious sea vessel but now a refugee camp after an apocalyptic war, loyal citizen Esther and rebel Nik are thrown together by events that change their lives and the lives of everyone on the ship forever"-- Provided by publisher.
12) The refugees
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of stories, written over a twenty-year period, examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.
13) The awakening
Author
Series
Nubia volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a climate-ravaged New York deeply divided by class, Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho, three teens of refugees from a fallen African utopia, begin to develop supernatural powers.
15) The bone sparrow
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Subhi's contained world as a refugee in an Australian permanent detention center rapidly expands when Jimmie arrives on the other side of the fence and she asks him to read her late mother's stories to her"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Forced to flee their home in Aleppo, Syria, strong and resilient Dounia and her family embark on a difficult journey, facing many threats along the way that are overcome by magical baraké seeds, until they finally reach a special house prophesied by their neighbor.
17) The red pencil
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement of a wise elder"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1523
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language." As she searches...
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