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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster Hardcover Edition.
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of climate migration-the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, it is an unforgettable film of love, courage and sacrifice. During the final months of World War II in Hungary, a young man sets out to find his displaced family by using a stolen Nazi uniform to pose as an officer. On a journey filled with suspense and danger, he undertakes extraordinary measures to save his family and thousands of lives from the enemy.
83) Three hours
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Stockholm, Sweden: Seventy-three refugees have been found dead, suffocated in a container at Varta harbor. Niamey, Niger: Ewert Grens arrives in a city he's never heard of, in search of a man he never thought he would see again. Piet Hoffmann has again got himself in too deep, infiltrating a West African trafficking ring. He thinks he has two weeks to extricate himself, but will learn that his life, and that of countless defenseless people, now hangs...
84) The tempest
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A storm strikes a ship carrying Alonso, Ferdinand, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Stephano, and Trinculo, who are on their way to Italy after coming from the wedding of Alonso's daughter, Claribel, to the prince of Tunis in Africa. -- from Sparknotes.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Author
Publisher
Cuento De Luz
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"There are places that remind us of happy moments. Zoe, a little girl who has to flee from her city with her family because of a war, remembers them before she leaves. She uses them to draw a map of good memories, knowing that they will always be with her"--Amazon.com.
88) Surrender
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that "calls to mind The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago" (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation)"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two young Afghani girls living in a refugee camp in Pakistan share a precious pair of sandals brought by relief workers. Includes author's note about refugees.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After their home in Syria's bombed, Tareq, his father, and his younger sister seek refuge, first with extended family in Raqqa--a stronghold for the militant group Daesh--and then abroad.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In late March 1944, as Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel decide they must run in retreat from their land with murderous Nazi officers they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Kit Philipson has always felt like stranger in his family. An only child in Glasgow, Scotland, his mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of three on one of the 1939 Kindertransports. On her deathbed, Kit's mother tells him he was adopted and his birth name was Novello. A search of old newspaper files reveals that a three-year-old boy named Peter Novello was abducted from his parents' holiday hotel in...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novel volume V. 13
Language
English
Description
When listeners last heard Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938, and the world was on the brink of war. Maisie herself was on a dangerous mission inside Nazi Germany, where she encountered an old enemy and the Fuhrer himself. In In This Grave Hour, a year has passed, and Maisie is back home in England - yet neither she nor her nation is safe. Britain has just declared war on Germany and is mobilizing for the devastating battle ahead. But when she stumbles on...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Using magic to control the golems he has raised, the legendary Sleeping Prince has woken, killed King Merek, and taken Lormere, and many of its people are refugees, including Errin and her sick mother--but there are those who oppose the Prince, and Errin, a skilled apothecary, may hold the key to ending his power.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"They say you can't get something for nothing, but nothing is all Sami has. When his grandfather's most-prized possession--a traditional Afghan instrument called a rebab--is stolen, Sami resolves to get it back. He finds it at a music store, but it costs $700, and Sami doesn't have even one penny. What he does have is a keychain that has caught the eye of his classmate. If he trades the keychain for something more valuable, could he keep trading until...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history and purpose of a small steamer that survived U-boat attacks during World War II, describing how it was renamed "Exodus 1947" to be better suited to its purpose of ferrying Holocaust survivors to Palestine, and detailing the incident between the "Exodus 1947" and the British Royal Navy in international waters.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"November 9, 1938-Kristallnacht-the Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai, a city that becomes the last haven for thousands of desperate European Jews. Dr. Franz Adler, a renowned surgeon, is swept up in the wave of anti-Semitic violence and flees to Shanghai with his daughter. At a refugee hospital, Franz meets an enigmatic...
98) Noodle pie
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller Book
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Andy's father is a former refugee from Vietnam. 15-year old Andy and his father go to Vietnam and meet relatives who speak a different language, seem to be greedy and impatient and run a pretty crummy restaurant. For Andy Vietnam becomes a place for learning how to see things in a whole new way.
99) Lily's crossing
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Syria, 2011: Teenage boys graffiti "Down with the regime" on a wall. This small act is just one of the many sparks that ignite a revolution to overthrow the tyrannical rule of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. But Assad and his supporters are ruthless: imprisonment, torture, and devastating massacres tear the country apart. Refugees begin to flee Syria in staggering numbers. The unexpected flood of victims overwhelms neighboring countries. Desperate...