A Long Walk To Water
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.
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year:
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: dut, salva, refugees [X], survival, water, blacks, survival skills, sudan, electronic books, bildungsromans [X]
Refugee 87
Shif leads a happy life: he's one of the smartest boys at school, he lives next door to his best friend, and is loved by his mother and sister.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: prisoners, refugees [X], survival, best friends, friendship, survival skills, middle east, ethiopia, electronic books, bildungsromans [X]
Yara's Spring
"Growing up in Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: teenage girls, families, refugees [X], refugee camps, family life, syria, arab spring, 2010-, bildungsromans, arab spring, 2010, coming of age, aleppo (syria), bildungsromans [X], realistic fiction
The Ledge
Nick, a teenage boy used to being good at everything he tried his hand at, feels life has ended after an accident leaves him partially paralyzed and his girlfriend dumps him.
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year:
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: teenagers, surfing, paraplegics, friendship, refugees [X], bildungsromans, bildungsromans [X], teenage boys, electronic books