Refugees Throughout History
Learning about the history of refugees increases readers' sense of empathy for those who have been left with no choice but to flee their homes.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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To The Lions
"Casey Benedict, star reporter at the Post, has infiltrated the lives and exposed the lies of countless politicians and power players.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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When Stars Are Scattered
"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 184
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: mohamed, omar, refugees, refugee camps [X], brothers, nonfiction comics, comics (graphic works), biographical comics, cartoons and comics
Yara's Spring
"Growing up in Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: teenage girls, families, refugees, refugee camps [X], family life, syria, arab spring, 2010-, bildungsromans, arab spring, 2010, coming of age, aleppo (syria), bildungsromans, realistic fiction
The Unexpected Friend
"In the midst of a sprawling refugee camp, a young Rohingya boy finds an injured bird and decides to take care of it with the help of his sisters.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: brothers and sisters, rohingya (burmese people), birds, animals, refugee camps [X], animal fiction, picture books
Wherever I Go
Abia is the self-proclaimed Queen of the Shimelba refugee camp, facing her displacement with strength, imagination, and pride.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
The Stray And The Strangers
"Based on a true story, a stray dog befriends an orphan boy in a refugee camp on a Greek island"--Publisher.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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From The Tops Of The Trees
"A . . . true story of a young girl who has never known life outside a refugee camp and a father determined to help her dream beyond the fences that confine them"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: yang, kao kalia, refugees, refugee camps [X], father-daughter relationship, autobiographies, creative nonfiction, picture books
Waiting Place
"A look at ten young lives suspended outside of time--and bravely proceeding anyway.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
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Cuando Brillan Las Estrellas
"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mohamed, omar, refugees, refugee camps [X], brothers, cartoons and comics, spanish language materials, autobiographical comics, biographical comics, nonfiction comics, comics (graphic works)
A Map Of Future Ruins
"A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of times and migrations past are intimately linked to our exclusion and demonization of migrants in the present When and how did migration become a crime? Why did "Greek ideals" become foundational to the West's idea of itself? How have our personal migration myths -and our nostalgia for a lost world of clear borders and values - shaped our troubling new realities? In 2020, Lauren Markham went to Greece to cover the burning of a refugee camp on Lesbos.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Wings To Soar
In 1972 Viva and her Indian family were forced to leave Uganda--now in a resettlement camp in England she struggles to cope with the living conditions there, hoping that her father may join them soon.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: refugees, forced migration, refugee camps [X], uganda, greenham (west berkshire, england), great britain, autobiographical fiction