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• My Father, the Panda Killer

  Hoang, Jamie Jo,

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  Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.

• We Are Displaced

  My Journey and Stories From Refugee Girls Around the World

  Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-

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  Nobel Peace Prize winner Yousafzai shares her own story of displacement, along with the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her various journeys to refugee camps and the cities where refugee girls and their families have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday

  Anderson, Natalie C.

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  Forced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi, must confront his painful past.

• Everything Sad Is Untrue

  (a True Story)

  Nayeri, Daniel,

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  At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Illegal

  Colfer, Eoin,

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  Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Next New Syrian Girl

  Shukairy, Ream,

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  The unlikely friendship between Syrian American boxer Khadija and Syrian refugee Leene reveals the pressures and expectations of the perfect Syrian daughter and the repercussions of the Syrian Revolution both at home and abroad.

• The Far Away Brothers

  Two Teenage Immigrants Making a Life in America

  Markham, Lauren,

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  Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America.

• City of Saints & Thieves

  Anderson, Natalie C.

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  Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, where she and her mother fled years before, in order to seek revenge for her mother's murder but instead they uncover startling secrets.

• The Unwanted

  Stories of the Syrian Refugees

  Brown, Don, 1949-

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  A timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities of living in, and trying to escape, a war zone

• Refugee

  Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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  Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Land of Permanent Goodbyes

  Abawi, Atia,

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  After their home in Syria is bombed, Tareq, his father, and his younger sister seek refuge, first with extended family in Raqqa, a stronghold for the militant group, Daesh, and then abroad.

• 6,000 Miles to Freedom

  Two Boys and Their Flight From the Taliban

  Marchetti, Stéphane, 1978-

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  A narrative account, in graphic novel format, of the traumatic experiences faced by children fleeing war and poverty in Afghanistan, as well as the isolation they often feel as refugees in the West.

• Salt to the Sea

  Sepetys, Ruta

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  Winter 1945. Four refugees. Four secrets. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies, war. As thousands desperately flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Global Refugee Crisis

  Fleeing Conflict and Violence

  McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino

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  According to a UN tally, more than 1 million people fled violence and persecution in 2015. Of these, more than half were children. Thousands died along the way. The Syrian civil war as well as armed conflicts in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Search of Safety

  Voices of Refugees

  Kuklin, Susan

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  Five refugees recount their courageous journeys to America — and the unimaginable struggles that led them to flee their homelands.

• Wings in the Wild

  Engle, Margarita

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  When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Stories Carried Us Here

  a Graphic Novel Anthology

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  A bold and unconventional collection of first-person stories told and illustrated by immigrants and refugees living across the United States. Stanford scientist, deaf student, indigenous activist, Black entrepreneur-all immigrants and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Butterfly Yellow

  Lại, Thanhhà,

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  After the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War, hundreds of children were airlifted from Vietnam to the United States. Hang saw to it that her three-year-old brother Linh was one of these children, though at the airport she's shocked to discover…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zenobia

  Dürr, Morten,

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  When the Syrian war reaches Amina's village she's forced to escape, and during her perilous journey she thinks of the brave warrior Zenobia to remind her to stay strong.

• How Dare the Sun Rise

  Memoirs of a War Child

  Uwiringiyimana, Sandra,

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  The author shares the story of her survival during the Gatumba Massacre--despite losing her mother and sister--and how after moving to America she found healing through art and activism.