Four Feet, Two Sandals
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
Mud City
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
subjects: refugees, camps, k?bol (afghanistan), pakistan, readers rule, refugee camps [X], kabul (afghanistan), k?abol (afghanistan), courage, assertiveness (psychology), street children, afghanistan
The Day Of The Pelican
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
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
subjects: hmong (asian people), refugee camps [X], refugee children, hmong (asian people) refugees, political refugees, sewing
90 Miles To Havana
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
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
lexile:
Ester's Child
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
lexile:
subjects: palestinian arabs, refugee camps [X], holocaust survivors, children of nazis, jews, sh?t?l? (lebanon : refugee camp), lebanon, israel, poland
Blue Gold
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:
Liberation 1945
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
lexile:
Refugee Workers
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
Lost Girl Found
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
Hold Tight, Don't Let Go
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
lexile:
subjects: haiti earthquake, haiti, 2010, earthquakes, cousins, separation (psychology), refugee camps [X], port-au-prince (haiti), haiti
Baddawi
"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:
My Beautiful Birds
"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:
If You Leave Me
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
lexile:
subjects: refugee camps [X], man-woman relationship, korean war, 1950-1953, historical fiction, romance fiction, war stories, historical fiction, romance fiction, war stories