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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
4) Stolen girl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
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:...
Author
Language
English
Description
"1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of a safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
7) Rescue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...
9) Exodus
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1958
Edition
[1st ed.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 41
Physical Desc
626 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of the birth of the nation of Israel and its struggle for existence told through the eyes of an American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter.
10) Little Cricket
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, twelve-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually to the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
13) The last noel
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
When two escaped killers take refuge in their home during a storm on Christmas Eve, Skyler O'Boyle plays a daring psychological game to throw the criminals off guard, while her daughter, Kat, escapes and meets a third felon, who is hiding a secret that could save them all.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
321, 15 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1993, twelve-year-old Becca, who struggles with a anxiety disorder, visits her divorced father in Vienna, Austria, where she befriends a Muslim refugee fleeing the Bosnian genocide.
15) Deep sea
Author
Series
Steiner sisters quartet volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nearly four years after leaving Vienna to escape the Nazis, Stephie Steiner, now sixteen, and her sister Nellie, eleven, are still living in Sweden, worrying about their parents and striving to succeed in school, and at odds with each other despite their mutual love.
16) Brother's keeper
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2014-
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of heated battle, Ed, Envy and Prince Lin of Xing are swallowed whole by the homunculus Gluttony. When they finally escape, they find themselves face-to-face with the “father” of the homunculi, who offers Lin immortality as the new Greed. Meanwhile, Colonel Mustang learns the military?s corruption goes all the way to the top, and the truth of what really happened in the Ishbalan War is revealed."--No. 5, Volumes 13-14-15.
"War breaks...
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
c2012.
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"For eons, humans ruled the natural world. But a century ago, everything changed when the Titans appeared. Giant, grotesque parodies of the human form, these sexless monsters consumed all but a few thousand human beings, who took refuge behind giant walls. Today, the threat of the Titans is a distant memory, and a boy named Eren yearns to explore the world beyond the wall. But what began as a childish dream will become an all-too-real nightmare when...
20) Crabwalk
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The author of the Tin Drum takes on the worst maritime disaster in history, the sinking of a German cruise ship packed with refugees by a Soviet sub, a disaster that killed nine thousand people. Gunter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades now, but no book since The Tin Drum has generated as much excitement as this engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. A German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, it was attacked...
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