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81) El único destino
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Primera edición.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
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
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hassan, newly-arrived in the United States and feeling homesick, paints a picture at school that shows his old home in Somalia as well as the reason his family had to leave.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When unrest hits the streets of Havana, Cuba, Julian's parents must make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation. But when the boys get to Miami, they are thrust into a world where bullies seem to run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Nadia is separated from her family while fleeing the civil war, she spends the next four days with a mysterious old man who helps her navigate the checkpoints and snipers of the rebel, ISIS, and Syrian armies that are littering Aleppo on her way to meeting her father at the Turkish border.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of the "terrifically affecting" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Mornings in Jenin, a sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
77 pages; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As a group of refugees huddles together in a rubber dinghy, one of them uses his violin to weave their stories together and give them hope for freedom in the future.
88) Tree Girl
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatised sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future.
89) Súplica a la mar
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Salamandra
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1a edición.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
Español
Description
Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
Súplica a la Mar se compone en forma de una carta, de un padre a su hijo, en la víspera de...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Enduring a refugee existence in New York in the wake of a nuclear war, Hel, a woman from a parallel dimension, refuses to acclimate to an unfamiliar culture and obsessively creates a museum in the name of her vanished world.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]; Yearling [2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1967 in Nablus, Palestine. Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp where she lives. Each harvest, she and her mama pick the small fruits and she eagerly stomp stomp stomps on them to release their golden oil. Olives have always tied her family to the land, as Oraib learns from the stories Mama tells of a home before war. But war has come to their door once more, forcing them to flee. Even as her family is uprooted, Oraib...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
357 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pip, a young boy who can speak to fish, and his sister Kinchen set off on a great adventure, joined by twins with magical powers, refugees fleeing post-war Vietnam, and some helpful sea monsters"--
Author
Series
(Sam Smith)Tales of Old Natalia volume 2
Publisher
Story Warren Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
King Whitson Mariner leads the displaced rabbits as they weather every challenge on their quest for a new home.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl recounts the day that war came to her town, destroyed her family and home, and caused her to make a dangerous journey to find peace.
96) The journey
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Second edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"What is it like to have to leave everything behind and travel many miles to somewhere unfamiliar and strange? A mother and her two children set out on such a journey; one filled with fear of the unknown, but also great hope. Based on her interactions with people forced to seek a new home, and told from the perspective of a young child, Francesca Sanna has created a beautiful and sensitive book that is full of significance for our time."-- Provided...
97) We are wolves
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
304 pages
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 to survive...
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.
100) Boy, everywhere
Author
Publisher
Tu Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustrations ; 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.
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