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Author
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives" -- Page [4] cover.
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...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When quiet, nine-year-old Ahmet arrives in their classroom, a boy and his friends fail to draw him out but try a new plan after learning he is a Syrian refugee.
6) Nowhere boy
Author
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his father on the perilous journey to the shores of Europe. Now Ahmeds struggling to get by on his own, but with no one left to trust and nowhere to go, hes starting to lose hope. Then he meets Max, a thirteen-year-old American boy from Washington, D.C. Lonely...
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
127 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Victor is the captain of a soccer team of recently arrived refugee kids. He struggles to focus on his game during a national tournament because he is haunted by the memory of losing his grandfather back in war-torn Syria and he is worrying about his brother who is at home sick with pneumonia. Can Victor find a way to take care of his family, himself, and his team?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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...