From Far Away
Describes one girl's experience of adapting to a new culture, as she leaves war-torn Beirut to settle in Canada with her family.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 30
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: askar, saoussan, culture shock, culture conflict, immigrants [X], refugees [X], cultural heritage / multicultural, fiction / family / general, multiculturalism, families, biographical fiction [X], picture books
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 [X], jews, dressmaking, letters, cuba, biographical fiction [X], epistolary fiction, historical fiction