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Four Feet, Two Sandals

author: Williams, Karen Lynn
Two ten-year-old refugee girls each get one sandal of a matching pair.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 57
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: refugee camps [X], refugees, shoes, sharing, 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

The Day Of The Pelican

author: Paterson, Katherine
In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

The Whispering Cloth

author: Shea, Pegi Deitz
A young girl in a Thai refugee camp finds the story within herself to create her own pa'ndau.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780

90 Miles To Havana

author: Flores-galbis, Enrique
Julian's parents, hoping to protect him from the dangers of the turmoil in Cuba, send him to the United States in 1961 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, not realizing that life in a Miami refugee camp holds its own perils.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790

Living In A Refugee Camp

author: Dalton, David
Presents a short study of what it is like to live in a refugee camp, and follows the experiences of Carbino, a young man who, at age eleven, fled his home in the Sudan after civil war broke out.
305.23
year: 2006
copies: 3
call number/section: 305.23
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subjects: carbino, refugees, refugee camps [X], refugee children, sudan

Ester's Child

author: Sasson, Jean P
The lives of three families, Jewish Holocaust survivors Joseph and Ester Gale, Palestinian refugees George and Mary Antoun, and former S.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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Blue Gold

author: Stewart, Elizabeth Mary
Follows three teen girls--Sylvie, Laiping, and Fiona--who live on three different continents but are linked together by the mineral coltan, or blue gold, that's used in cell phones.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: family life, teenagers, girls, refugees, refugee camps [X], families

Liberation 1945

author: Bachrach, Susan D.
Examines the liberation of the concentration and death camps in 1945 and the creation of displaced persons camps.
940.5
year: 1995
copies: 5
call number/section: 940.5
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Refugee Workers

author: Levy, Janey
Describes the challenges and rewards of being a refugee worker--people who help protect and provide aid to refugees, and explains how people become refugee workers.
362.87
year: 2007
copies: 2
call number/section: 362.87
lexile: 1030
subjects: refugees, refugee camps [X]

Lost Girl Found

author: Bassoff, Leah
When war comes to a small village in southern Sudan, young Poni must run for her life and begins a long and dangerous trek across the east African countryside with thousand of refugees to a camp in Kenya, but along the way many die from starvation, land mines, wild animals and despair.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: girls, survival, refugee camps [X], sudan

Hold Tight, Don't Let Go

author: Wagner, Laura Rose
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Nadine goes to live with her father in Miami while her cousin Magdalie, raised as her sister, remains behind in a refugee camp, dreaming of joining Nadine but wondering if she must accept that her life and future are in Port-au-Prince.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
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Baddawi

author: Abdelrazaq, Leila
"Coming-of-age story about a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: abdelrazaq, ahmad k, refugee camps [X], palestinian arabs

My Beautiful Birds

author: Del Rizzo, Suzanne
"Fleeing a home destroyed in the Syrian Civil War, Sami worries about the pet pigeons he left behind.
FIC
year:
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: refugees, refugee camps [X], birds

If You Leave Me

author: Kim, Crystal Hana
During the Korean civil war, sixteen-year-old Lee Haemi lives in a refugee camp in Busan, South Korea.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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