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Refugees

author: Stine, Catherine
Dawn, a California teen who has run away to New York, tries to contact her foster mother Louise, a Red Cross doctor in Pakistan, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and instead reaches Louise's assistant, Johar, a refugee from Afghanistan, and the two form a bond that gives them both hope and courage to face the future.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
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Under The Persimmon Tree

author: Staples, Suzanne Fisher
A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long journey to locate their missing loved ones after the war ends.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1010
subjects: afghan war, 2001-, refugees [X], afghanistan [X], peshawar (pakistan)

Mud City

author: Ellis, Deborah
Fourteen-year-old Shauzia, an Afghan refugee living in a camp in Pakistan, determines to find a way to fulfill her dreams of seeing the ocean and beginning a new life in France.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 54
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

Living As A Refugee In America

author: Howard, Helen
Presents a short study of what it is like to be a refugee living in America, and follows the experiences of Mohammed Nazari, a young sixteen-year-old boy who, with his mother and siblings, came to this country from Afghanistan.
973
year: 2006
copies: 6
call number/section: 973
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The Roses In My Carpets

author: Khan, Rukhsana
An Afghan boy struggling with the realities of his life in a refugee camp finds strength in his training as a carpet weaver, creating a tapestry of roses that helps him cope when his sister is hurt.
398.2
year: 2004
copies: 8
call number/section: 398.2
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subjects: refugees [X], weaving, afghanistan [X]

The Story Of My Life

author: Ahmedi, Farah
Farah Ahmedi, the victim of a land mine when she was just twelve years old, tells about her childhood in Afghanistan, a country trapped in war her entire life, and discusses the challenges she has faced as a result of losing her leg, and in trying to adapt to living in the United States.
920
year: 2006
copies: 3
call number/section: 920
lexile: 850

A Refugee's Journey From Afghanistan

author: Mason, Helen
"Sonita was born in a refugee camp in Pakistan after her family fled Afghanistan during the war in the early 2000s.
362.7
year: 2017
copies: 8
call number/section: 362.7
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subjects: refugees [X], refugee children, afghan war, 2001-, afghanistan [X]

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