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Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 670L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany arrives in New York City on the seventh night of Hanukkah and receives small acts of kindness while exploring the city" --
Author
Lexile measure
770L
Description
Eleven-year-old Celeste Marconi is a dreamer, a writer, a collector of words. But then a new whispered word trickles into her life: "Subversives." Her beloved country of Chile has been taken over by a military dictatorship, and subversives--people considered a threat to the new government--are in increasing danger. Celeste's doctor-parents must go into hiding to remain safe, and Celeste, heartsick, must say good-bye to them. But the situation continues...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician" and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five years ago. Arriving in Phnom Penh, Teera finds a society still in turmoil, where perpetrators and survivors of atrocity live side by side. Soon she...
85) The shadow girls
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself...
86) We are wolves
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of World War II, the Wolf family flees, but Liesl, Otto, and their baby sister Mia are separated from their mother and they are forced to do dangerous things in order to survive." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is the summer of 1941 and Abe Auer, a Russian immigrant and small-town junkyard owner, has become disenchanted with his life. So when his friend Max Hoffman, a local rabbi with a dark past, asks Abe to take in a European refugee, he agrees, unaware that the woman coming to live with him is a volatile and alluring actress named Ana Beidler. Ana regales the Auer family with tales of her lost stardom and charms and mystifies Abe with her glamour...
Author
Series
Secrets of the manor volume 3
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
146 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While everyone at Chatswood Manor is busy planning a birthday ball, an Irish refugee who is searching for his wife arrives at the house, and Elizabeth and Katherine decide to investigate the woman's disappearance.
89) Boy, everywhere
Author
Publisher
Tu Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustration, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Sami loves his life in Damascus, Syria, but when war breaks out his parents decide they must flee their home for the safety of the UK.
Sami loves his life in Damascus, Syria. He hangs out with his best friend playing video games; he's trying out for the football team; he adores his family and gets annoyed by them in equal measure. But his comfortable life gets sidetracked abruptly after a bombing in a nearby shopping mall. Knowing that the violence...
90) White shadow
Author
Series
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: Norway is under the Nazi boot. When the bodies from a bombed battleship begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid can't know that one will be alive, and warm enough to erase a lifetime of loneliness - nor can she imagine what suffering she will endure in protecting her lover,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn't an option, her desperate mother Pernilla turns to an unlikely source for help. She finds a cryptic ad online for a private investigator: "Need help, but can't contact the police?" That's where Kouplan comes in. He's an Iranian refugee living in hiding. He was forced to leave Iran after news of his and his brother's involvement with a radical newspaper hated by the regime was discovered....
92) Butterfly yellow
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.
93) Exile music
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An atmospheric and meditative novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Fleeing abusive relatives and extreme poverty in Mexico, young Santiago endures being detained by ICE while crossing the border into the United States.
The bed creaks under Santiagos shivering body. They say a persons life flashes by before dying. But its not his whole life. Just the events that led to this. The important ones, and the ones Santiago would rather forget. The coins in Santiagos hand are meant for the bus fare back to his abusive abuelas...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1917, Alma Pihl, a master craftsman in the House of Fabergé, was charged to protect one of the greatest secrets in Russian history--an unknown Fabergé Egg that Peter Karl Fabergé secretly created to honor his divided allegiance to both the people of Russia and the Imperial tsar's family. When Alma and her husband escaped Russia for their native Finland in 1921, she took the secret with her, guarding her past connection to the Romanov family....
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every day, more and more people fleeing war in the north show up at Kyung Tak and her family's house on the southeastern shore of Korea. With nowhere else to go, the Taks' home is these migrants' last chance of refuge 'before falling into the sea,' and the household quickly becomes crowded, hot, and noisy. Then war sirens cry out over Kyung's city too, and her family and their guests take shelter underground. When the sirens stop, Kyung is upset--she...
97) Stolen girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 20 cm
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 questions:...
Author
Series
Swan House volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With her oldest son taking a gap year in Europe, her aging father losing his sight and his memory, and her husband of twenty years announcing that he's leaving her, Abbie Jowett is surrounded by overwhelming loss. Desperate to mend her marriage and herself, she follows her son, Bobby, to walk the famed Camino pilgrimage. During their journey they encounter Rasa, an Iranian woman working in secret helping other refugees, and Caroline, a journalist...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1999. Two single mothers who come from completely separate yet unerringly similar worlds, struggle through the curveballs that life throws at them and their children. Jamilah is a Somalian woman looking for sanctuary from child soldiers and Kenyan refugee camps, ending up in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Anne is a Minnesotan born and raised dealing with the loss of her grandmother. Through the pain of being forced out of their homes, suffering...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from...