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Refugees -- Finding Safety, Finding Hope, Leaving Home
**// Two Suns in the Sky //** By Miriam Bat-Ami In 1944, an Upstate New York teenager name Christine meets and falls in love with Adam, a Yugoslavian Jew living in a refugee camp, despite their parents’ conviction that they do not belong together. **// Home of the Brave //** By Katherine Applegate   Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth-grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner. **// Little Cricket //** By Jackie Brown   After the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, twelve-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually to the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota. **// Journey of the Sparrows //** By Fran Leeper Buss   Maria and her brother and sister, Salvadoran refugees, are smuggled into the United States in crates and try to eke out a living in Chicago with the help of a sympathetic family. **// Red Midnight //** By Ben Mikaelsen   After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States. //** Playing for Keeps **// By Joan Lowery Nixon On a Caribbean cruise, sixteen-year-old Rosie meets a teenage Cuban baseball player seeking political asylum in the United States and tries to help him escape a charge of murder. //** Skeletons at the Feast **// Gr. 9-Adult By Christopher A. Bohjalian   As Hitler's Third Reich crumbles, an aristocratic Prussian woman and her child flee west away from the approaching Russian army. Eventually they form an unlikely alliance with a Jewish man escaping from the concentration camps. **// Tasting the Sky //** Gr. 9-Adult  By Ibtisam Barakat   A memoir in which the author describes her childhood as a Palestinian refugee, discussing her family's experiences during and after the Six-Day War, and the freedom she felt at learning to read and write. //** My Name is Sangoel **// By Karen Lynn Williams  As a refugee from Sudan to the United States, Sangoel is frustrated that no one can pronounce his name correctly until he finds a clever way to solve the problem. **// Drita, my Homegirl //** By Jenny Lombard   When ten-year-old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxine is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond. // ** The Day of the Pelican ** // By Katherine Paterson In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli’s life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America. By Gary Schmidt 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 || **// They Poured Fire on us From the //**// Sky // Gr. 9-Adult By Benson Deng Presents the stories of three young men who as children in the late 1980s were forced from their homes by war in the Sudan and traveled, along with thousands of other boys, nearly one thousand miles in search of refuge, surviving hunger, illness, and human and animal predators. **// Tree Girl //** By Ben Mikaelsen When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatized sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future. ||
 * [[image:refugees.jpg]] ||< **// A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier //** Gr. 9-Adult  By Ishmael Beah   Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.  **// The Whispering Cloth: a Refugee’s Story //**  By Pegi Deitz Shea   A young girl in a Thai refugee camp finds the story within herself to create her own pa’ndau.  ||
 * // The Tiger in the Attic //** By Edith Milton   The author recalls her childhood experiences of arriving in England from Germany age seen in 1939, living in a strange country, and being forced to leave for New Jersey after the war to reunite with a mother she could not remember.
 * // Little Bee //** Gr. 9-Adult  By Chris Cleave   A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers—one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
 * // Diamonds in the Shadow //** By Caroline B. Cooney   While his mother and father help a family of African refugees, Jared learns that the people he counts on for doing good deeds are not always praiseworthy and is faced with a decision which may have implications for all.   **// Nation //** Gr. 9-Adult   By Terry Pratchett   A tsunami destroys everything leaving Mau, an island boy, Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, and a small group of refugees responsible for rebuilding their village and their lives.
 * // The Journey that Save Curious George: the True Wartime Escape of Margret //****// and H. A. Rey //** By Louise Bordon   Tells how the creators of “Curious George” narrowly escaped capture by the Nazis while fleeing Paris on their bicycles during World War II.
 * // A Different Kind of Courage //** By Ellen Howard   While escaping the horrors of war-torn France, refugee children struggle to overcome the misconception that their parents are abandoning them.
 * **// God Grew Tired of Us //** Gr. 9-Adult By John Bul Dau Presents a first-person account of the terror, suffering, and tragedyof the Sudanese Civil War and how the author, John Bul Dau, eventually made his way out of the country to America. || **// Alive in the Killing Fields //** Gr. 9-Adult  By Nawuth Keat Real-life memoir of Nawuth Keat, a man who survived the horrors of war-torn Cambodia.  ||
 * [[image:refugees3.jpg width="141" height="169" align="left"]]**// Trouble //**