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1) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Publisher
Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A spacious umbrella welcomes anyone and everyone who needs shelter from the rain.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the coldest season, when the world feels scary -- what do you remember about being warm? Baked potatoes. Trust. A kettle on the stove. Blankets. A smile. And, most of all, the reassurance that you belong. In his powerful and moving poem, featuring illustrations from thirteen extraordinary artists, bestselling author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Neil Gaiman draws together many different memories to answer the question, 'what do you need to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
Author
Series
Furry Friends Animal Shelter volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gaby is in need a forever home herself. Her mother has recently been deported to Honduras and Gaby doesn't know where to turn. Meanwhile, Gaby's favorite shelter cat, Feather, needs a new place to live. Gaby would love to adopt her -- but if Gaby doesn't have a place that feels like home to her, how can she help Feather?
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Missing her mother who has returned to Turkey to resolve an immigration problem, sixth-grader Sila welcomes a very large distraction in her life when she helps a surprising new friend rescue a circus elephant.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A young girl wonders what life would be like if she lived somewhere else. What if she lived in a city with millions of people? What would it be like to be a refugee from a war-torn country? Is she meant to be in a different place? Or is she right where she's supposed to be? "--
Author
Series
American girls collection Kirsten volume 2
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
69 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c1986.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
61 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family experience many hardships as they travel from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl describes her feelings when her father decides to leave their home in Mexico to look for work in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (3 hrs. 28 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
[2023], c2022.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm.
Language
Español
Description
En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se encuentran con otras personas como ellos. Familias con raíces...
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