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Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
3) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Publisher
W W Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity." -Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting
Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."
In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus traveled to Nazi Germany to save a group of Jewish children. In this account, that draws from Kraus's unpublished memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with more than a dozen surviving children, a story of personal courage and heroism comes to light.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 64
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
186 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trouble plagues a student tour through Europe as Nancy becomes involved in a plot to smuggle refugee children across the Austrian border from Eastern Europe.
Author
Series
Tales of Old Natalia volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
157 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A displaced community fights for hope on the ragged edge of survival"--Cover.
A group of rabbits flees to a safe haven after their home is invaded. Their king tries to bring the community back together in their new land but some rabbits are hesitant to settle. Former coal miner, Fleck, chooses to be loyal to his king, vowing to protect him and his son as all the rabbits struggle to create a home for themselves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Winter, 1945. Four teenagers. Four secrets. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies... and war. As thousands of desperate refugees flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. Yet not all promises can be kept.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A woman sits in her apartment in an unnamed English city, absorbed in watching the dramas of her neighbors through their windows. Traumatized into muteness after a long, devastating trip from war-torn Syria to the UK, she believes that she wants to sink deeper into isolation, moving between memories of her absent boyfriend and family and her homeland, dreams, and reality. At the same time, she begins writing for a magazine under the pseudonym "the...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany arrives in New York City on the seventh night of Hanukkah and receives small acts of kindness while exploring the city.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and...
12) Infidel
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xii, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts the story of her life, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia and escape from a forced marriage to her efforts to promote women's rights while surviving numerous threats to her safety.
13) The library bus
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Kabul's first library bus and colored by family memories, a touching snapshot of one innovative way girls received education in a country disrupted by war.
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
Tales of Old Natalia volume 2
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
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrowboat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them--but as she folds and gathers pages, her mind wanders to the opposite side of Walton Street,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from...
19) 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.
20) All Saints
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the inspiring true story of salesman turned pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.