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.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 778
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: dut, salva, refugees [X], survival skills, water, sudan, blacks, survival, audiobooks, children's audiobooks, war stories, large type books, war fiction, biographical fiction [X]
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, refugees [X], cultural heritage / multicultural, fiction / family / general, multiculturalism, families, biographical fiction [X], picture books
House Without Walls
"Eleven-year-old Lam, her brothers, and other ethnic Chinese flee Vietnam in 1979, embarking on a long and perilous journey toward a refugee camp, where Lam finds new hope and happiness.
FIC
year:
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brothers and sisters, refugees [X], boat people, voyages and travels, siblings, juvenile fiction / social issues / emigration & immigration, juvenile fiction / stories in verse, juvenile fiction / family / general (see also headings under social issues), vietnam, novels in verse, historical fiction, biographical fiction [X]
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, cuba, biographical fiction [X], epistolary fiction, historical fiction
Una Larga Travesi?a Hasta El Agua
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.
FIC
year:
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dut, salva, refugees [X], survival skills, water, blacks, spanish language, sudan, biographical fiction [X]