The Milk Of Birds
When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fourteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
Why No Goodbye?
When his mother escapes Myanmar with his siblings during the Rohingya crisis, thirteen-year-old Jubair expresses anger over the abandonment and struggles to find forgiveness, in a series of letters.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: burma, myanmar, rohingya (burmese people), abandoned children, separation (psychology), refugees [X], letters [X], novels in verse
Letters From Cuba
In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: refugees [X], immigrants, jews, dressmaking, letters [X], cuba, biographical fiction, epistolary fiction, historical fiction