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2) Mustafa
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After leaving his war-torn country with his family, Mustafa visits a park near his new home and finds beautiful flowers, lady bugs, fall leaves, and finally, a friend." --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a mysterious accident that closes a portal to another world, magic is banned in Talhaven. But there are those like Rook who are stranded in Talhaven and still have the power to wield magic. Living in exile, a stranger offers Rook and her friend safety, but appearances can be deceiving and the pair soon find themselves in serious danger"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Lubna's best friend is a pebble. Pebble always listens to her stories. Pebble always smiles when she feels scared. But when a lost little boy arrives in the World of Tents, Lubna realizes that he needs Pebble even more than she does." -- From dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and necessary picture book - the journey of a child forced to become a refugee when war destroys everything she has ever known. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, war came. Imagine it turned your town to rubble. Imagine going on a long and difficult journey - all alone. Imagine finding no welcome at the end of it. Then imagine a child who gives you something small but very, very precious ... When the government refused to allow 3000 child...
Author
Publisher
Cuento De Luz
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"There are places that remind us of happy moments. Zoe, a little girl who has to flee from her city with her family because of a war, remembers them before she leaves. She uses them to draw a 'map of good memories,' knowing that they will always be with her."--
Author
Publisher
Blue Whale Press, Clear Fork Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When war forces two sisters to flee their home in South Sudan with nothing but the clothes they are wearing, Big Sister strives to help Little Sister smile again at the refugee settlement. "Dirt is dirt, until water makes mud" -- a mud baby doll."--
10) Primrose day
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc
Pub. Date
[1942]
Language
English
Description
During World War II, seven-year-old Merry Primrose Ramsay is sent from England to live with relatives in the United States, where, despite missing her parents and feeling homesick, she has many adventures while going to school and learning to fish and knit.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.
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