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41) Driftwood Bay
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Jeannette Mason swore off relationships of any kind when she moved to Hope Harbor to start a new life--but a single dad with a grieving little girl and an unruly pup may test that resolve"--
42) Alas salvajes
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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. There 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
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Joseph misses sharing meals with lots of people like he did back in the refugee camp, so when the neighbors finally come over, it's a feast! A companion book to Joseph's Big Ride, described in Kirkus as "a joyful, upbeat tale." When Joseph and Mama lived in a refugee camp in East Africa, everyone cooked and ate together. And Joseph could always hear someone playing the awal. It's much too quiet and lonely in his new home. Though Whoosh, the girl...
Author
Series
Jim Clemo novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
From NYT bestselling author of WHAT SHE KNEW comes a whip-smart domestic suspense about the secrets families tell one another.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
"Maisie Dobbs is plunged into a treacherous personal battle when she stumbles upon the deaths of refugees who may not be who they seem against a backdrop of the outbreak of World War II in England. "--provided by the publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escapeuntenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of V�anna: a teenage...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Kenan loves drawing and playing soccer with his friends. He wants to be a famous athlete, hates it when his classmates trash his buck teeth by calling him "Bugs Bunny," and fights with his big brother, who's too busy and cool for him lately. Sometimes his parents drive him crazy, but he feels loved and protected-until the war ruins everything. Soon, Kenan's family is trapped in their home with little food or water, surrounded...
48) The German girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together. Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis , a transatlantic...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the autumn of 1943, although Karin is far too young to understand the Nazi presence or the absence of her Pappa, a soldier in the German army, she is keenly aware of the uneasy tide of change swirling around her. And when a bomb destroys her home, Karin is forced to grow up far too fast as her family joins the tens of thousands displaced in the raids on Berlin. Now, driven by starvation and their perilous existence as refugees, Karin and her family...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside.When German bombs set London ablaze, BBC radio correspondent Hugh Collingwood reports on the Blitz, eager to boost morale...
51) The bone sparrow
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Subhi's contained world as a refugee in an Australian permanent detention center rapidly expands when Jimmie arrives on the other side of the fence and she asks him to read her late mother's stories to her"--
52) Captive witness
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 64
Publisher
Wanderer Books
Pub. Date
c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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.
53) The bluest sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: A boy and his family must decide whether to remain in Cuba under a repressive government or risk everything for the chance of a new beginning in this gripping story from the award-winning author of The Red Umbrella.
54) Wishes
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this spare, poetic picture book based on author Muon Van's family history and told through a series of wishes, a family packs up everything they own and embarks on a perilous oceanic voyage toward a better life"--
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The Great Terror of the late 1930s is raging in the Soviet Union, and Misha Kostrin lives in constant fear and spiritual emptiness. Shortly after the secret police arrest his best friend, Misha himself comes under suspicion. As he waits for his own inevitable demise, he finds a book his uncle left him years ago, and in it he discovers the key to saving himself from the evil that surrounds him.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa�nol, una divisi�on de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Segunda edici�on.
Language
Español
Description
In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
57) No somos de aquí
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
Español
Description
"La travesía llena de peligros, resiliencia, dolor y esperanza de tres adolescentes guatemaltecos que cruzan la frontera entre México y Estado Unidos. En este impresionante retrato de tres vidas injustamente destrozadas, basado en hechos reales, Jenny Torres Sanchez resalta el sacrificio de los migrantes en la frontera sur a través de una narración vívida y conmovedora."--
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And...
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