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Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2016. ©2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Arabic
Description
"In this picture book, a young girl and her family are forced to flee their village to escape the civil war that has engulfed Syria and make their way toward freedom in Europe"--
162) The bluest sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
163) The journey
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books, an imprint of Nobrow Ltd
Pub. Date
2016, ©2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
New ed.
Language
English
Description
Presents William Shakespeare's comedy in which Valentine and Proteus are fast friends, but when Valentine departs Verona for Milan confrontations and deceptions follow, with an introduction to the work and detailed textual notes.
165) Story boat
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a little girl and her younger brother are forced along with their family to flee the home they've always known, they must learn to make a new home for themselves--wherever they are. And sometimes the smallest things-- a cup, a blanket, a lamp, a flower, a story--can become a port of hope in a terrible storm. As the refugees travel onward toward an uncertain future, they are buoyed up by their hopes, dreams and the stories they tell--a story...
167) 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.
168) A dream of freedom
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.
169) 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"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
172) 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
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and forced him into a labor camp. Now Luka has smuggled himself out--even though he left behind his dearest friend, Lida. Someday, he vows, he'll find her again. Racing through the mountains, Luka evades capture by both Nazis and Soviet agents. When he meets the underground Ukrainian Insurgent Army, he knows that's where he belongs: fighting Nazis and Soviets alike. But the desperate rescues and guerilla...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Presents the stories of three young men who as children in the late 1980s were forced from their homes by war in the Sudan and traveled, along with thousands of other boys, nearly one thousand miles in search of refuge, surviving hunger, illness, and human and animal predators.
Author
Series
Inventor's secret volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In an alternate nineteenth-century America that is still a colony of Britain's industrial empire, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees' struggle to survive is interrupted by a newcomer with no memory, bearing secrets about a terrible future.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland of Austria, ripping the boy from his home and his friends in Vienna. His grandparents encouraged his mother and stepfather to take young John somewhere safe. 'You must have a future,' his grandfather told him before he and his parents boarded the train and waved goodbye. As they trekked across the country, from Vienna to Prague and then finally settling in Shanghai, there...
177) Displaced
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Toma and Malek, two thirteen-year-old Syrian children living in Beirut, struggle to provide for their families in a country that can be hostile against refugees like them, but they maintain hope that there is a way out of their seemingly impossible situation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The Wilhelm Gustloff Story studies the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger liner sunk in World War II's closing months while carrying thousands of refugees. Vivid text and images bring the ship to life, examining its construction, technology, crew, and passengers, as well as its place in history. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Custom House paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 2011, millions of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom and dignity. The government's ferocious response, and the demonstrators' refusal to back down, sparked a brutal war that escalated into one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of our time. We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled is an astonishing collection of intimate testimonies and poetic fragments that chronicle the conflict from its origins to its present horror, solely through...
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