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"A stranger-than-fiction story based on the real-life experiences of a young boy who was smuggled out of Ethiopia amid political unrest to start a new life from nothing in Calgary, Alberta."--
Tesfaye lives behind the safe walls of his family's compound in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His father is an important man, Tesfaye goes to one of the best schools in the city, his mother and older sisters keep him fed and cared for. When rebel forces take over...
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"Separated from his family when they were forced to flee their home, a young East African boy named Deo lives alone in the Lukole refugee camp in Tanzania. With scarce resources at the camp, bullies have formed gangs to steal what they can, and a leader named Remy has begun targeting Deo. Then one day a coach gathers all the children to play soccer. Though Deo loves soccer and has even made his own ball out of banana leaves, he's unsure at first about...
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"In this memorable story, a young boy finds solace flying his kite from the rooftop after soldiers take his father and brother away. Without his father and brother, the young boy's life is turned upside down. He and his family have to stay inside, along with everyone else in town. At suppertime, he can't stop looking at the two empty places at the table and his sister can't stop crying. The boy looks out the window and is chilled to see a tank's spotlight...
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""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. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan."" --
6) The journey
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Flying Eye Books
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2016.
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English
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"What is it like to have to leave everything behind and travel many miles to somewhere unfamiliar and strange? A mother and her two children set out on such a journey; one filled with fear of the unknown, but also great hope. Based on the author's interactions with people forced to seek a new home, and told from the perspective of a young child." --
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Sagebrush Publishing
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[2018]
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The American colonies are embroiled in a struggle for freedom. Susanna Bolling, a brave and resourceful teenage girl. craves independence. While her brothers are off fighting for the Patriots, she longs to do more than tedious household chores and attend spinning bees in sleepy City Point, Virginia. When British General Cornwallis invades her family's Bollingbrook Plantation, she overhears his secret plan to defeat the Patriots. Much to her shock,...
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Annick Press
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[2020]
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English
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"Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother,...
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Lion Forge/Magnetic
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2019.
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"Shanghei, 1937. As war rages acros China, young Yaya and Tuduo run from the wicked gangster Zhu while trying to reach her parents in Hong Kong. When they find themselves stranded on a remote island, will they find the strength and courage to survive?"--
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Magnetic Press
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[2020]
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"China, 1937. After a long and harrowing journey, Yaya and Tuduo are happy to be back in Shanghai again. But it isn't an entirely happy homecoming. Yaya's parents are missing, and the wicked Zhu is still on their trail... The exciting conclusion to this thrilling adventure!" --
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Magnetic Press
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[2020]
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"China, 1937. Young Yaya and Tuduo are lost while trying to reach Hong Kong to find her parents. Her memory lost, Yaya is found by the wicked gangster Zhu, who now wants to trade her back to her rich parents for a huge reward..."--
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