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After escaping from an Eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark.

Esther, a Jewish girl on the run from the Nazis, is able to deal with the horrors of the war as well as the normal agonies of teenage life with thoughts of flying out of ever-higher windows.

Describes the lives of eight teenagers from Haiti, why they left their homeland, and how they adjusted to life in the United States.

Describes the lives of eight teenagers from Iran, why they left their homeland, and how they adapted to life in the United States.

Explores the various reasons for the economic migration of thousands of people from one place to another, why they are no longer able to make a living where they are, the effects of poverty, the lure of land, and more.

Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.

In the early 1990s, a boy with a mysterious past and the woman who cares for him endure a five-year journey across the war-torn Caucasus and Europe, weathering hardships and welcoming unforgettable encounters with other refugees searching for a better life.

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.

Courage and desperation lead fifteen-year-old David and his father to flee Cuba's repressive regime and seek freedom by taking to the sea on a raft headed for Miami.

As fighting closes in on the village where Tiger's parents have been working, the three of them and a mysterious guide set out on a difficult journey to safety.

Explains what a refugee is, and how war, persecution, economic hardship, and natural disasters cause people to leave their homelands.

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.

Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, and then Kenya, before being offered sanctuary in the United States many years later.

In 1982 twelve-year-old Vonlai, his parents, and sister Dalah, escape from Laos to a Thai refugee camp where they spend four long years struggling to survive in hopes of one day reaching America.

On an Earth beset by climate troubles where only the tyrannical Commander has the option of modern, "civilized" life, children begin to go missing, abducted by the Commander's agents.