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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The unlikely friendship between Syrian American boxer, Khadija, and Syrian refugee, Leena, reveals the pressures and expectations of the perfect Syrian daughter and the repercussions of the Syrian Revolution both at home and abroad.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
256 p.
Language
English
Description
The arrival of a spaceship from Earth--destroyed when its sun went nova--carrying five million Earthlings in suspended animation, as well as an uncensored cultural record of Earth, threatens to destroy the paradisiacal planet of Thalassa.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kit Philipson has always felt like stranger in his family. An only child in Glasgow, Scotland, his mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of three on one of the 1939 Kindertransports. On her deathbed, Kit's mother tells him he was adopted and his birth name was Novello. A search of old newspaper files reveals that a three-year-old boy named Peter Novello was abducted from his parents' holiday hotel in...
66) 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.
67) Samira surfs
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
411 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After months of rebuilding a new life in Bangladesh with her family, Samira decides to become a Bengali surfer girl of Cox's Bazar, in this novel in verse about a young Rohingya girl's journey from isolation and persecution to sisterhood, and from fear topower.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a refugee from Sudan to the United States, Sangoel is frustrated that no one can pronounce his name correctly until he finds a clever way to solve the problem.
Author
Series
Sword of truth volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
557 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim--Arman Bajalan, formerly an interpreter in Iraq. After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US as a maintenance worker at the Sea Breeze Motel. Now, convinced that the body is connected to his past, he knows he is still not safe. Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel...
73) 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.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, then Kenya, and finally in the United States.
Author
Series
Butterfly Hill volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
454 pages: illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear."
76) The red pencil
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition: September 2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"--
77) Shooting Kabul
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
262 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After their home in Syria is bombed, Tareq, his father, and his younger sister seek refuge, first with extended family in Raqqa, a stronghold for the militant group, Daesh, and then abroad.
79) The only road
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous journey from his home in Guatemala to his older brother in New Mexico after his cousin is murdered by a drug cartel"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atheneum Books for Young Readers hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (497 pages): illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear."
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