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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
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Language
English
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"Countries go wrong, sometimes, and sometimes the luckier citizens of those countries have a chance to escape and seek refuge in another country?a country that might itself be in the process of going wrong. In the bustling indifference of an unnamed city, one such citizen finds himself trapped working for a company that makes its money dispatching an army of undocumented refugees to bring the well-off men and women of this confounding metropolis their...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
45) Iron gold
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society, and abolish the color-coded caste system. But the Rising has shattered everything, and brought endless war. New foes emerge to threaten what has been earned, and throughout the worlds other destinies entwine with Darrow's to change his fate forever. A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp, and achieves for herself a new life she could...
46) The night diary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Take the format of a spy thriller, shape it around real-life incidents involving international terrorism, leaven it with dark, dry humor, toss in a love rectangle, give everybody a gun, and let everything play out in the outer reaches of upstate New York [where a Danish cartoonist is relocated after having been involved in the controversy surrounding a depiction of Muhammad]"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Another day volume 2
Language
English
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"The Oracle of Maracoor continues the story of Elphaba’s green-skinned granddaughter, Rain. That strange land, Maracoor—across the ocean from Oz—is beset by an invading army. In the mayhem, Rain and Cossy, a child felon, break out of prison. Helped by a few flying monkeys, they struggle to escape the city before it falls under siege. Their arresting officer, Lucikles, also retreats with his family to a highland redoubt. But safety eludes them...
50) Pegasus: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Nicolas von Bingen and Alex von Hemmerle, titled members of the German aristocracy, have been best friends since childhood. Both widowers, they are raising their children - Nick's two lively boys and Alex's adored teenage daughter - in peace and luxury on the vast Bavarian estates that have belonged to their families for generations. While Nick indulges in more glamorous pursuits, Alex devotes himself to breeding the renowned white Lipizzaner horses...
51) The far country
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1952
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A doctor for Hitler's army escapes to Australia to begin a new life. Romance blooms with a young Englishwoman but the secret of his past threatens their happiness.
52) Out of nowhere
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013, ©2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Performing community service for pulling a stupid prank against a rival high school, soccer star Tom tutors a Somali refugee with soccer dreams of his own.
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Language
English
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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 to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally...
54) 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.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
185 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. 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.
57) I am David
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
239 p. ; 20 cm.
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.
58) The awakening
Author
Series
Nubia volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 352 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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
59) Like a dandelion
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like feathery seeds, a young girl and her mother take flight, putting down roots in an adopted country. Soon they blossom in their new home, strong and beautiful among hundreds of others just like them. . . A poetic tribute to the bravery of immigrants and refugees, inspired by the author's childhood experience of moving to the United States from Cambodia"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
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