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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Many people attempted daring escapes over the Berlin Wall, and most failed, giving their lives for the hope of freedom. This is the true story of one child, Peter Wetzel, and his family's daring escape from East Berlin to West Berlin via handmade hot air balloon in 1979"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
xi, 212 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduces displaced people from around the world to give faces to the statistics and news stories readers see and hear.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
46 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a celebrated documentary artist, twelve portraits from the front lines of migration form an intimate record of why people leave behind the places they call home"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The author, a former refugee herself, and a documentary photographer take readers to Katsikas, a refugee camp in Greece, to record the hopes and struggles of ten young lives, siblings and friends from Iran and Afghanistan.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The incredible true story of Tani Adewumi, a Nigerian refugee who garnered international news coverage after winning the New York State Chess Championship at the age of eight. Tani's story of finding a new life in America reminds children that perseverance and hope make a difference--and small acts of kindness can make the world a better place"--
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, and imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
109 pages : color illustrations ; 15 x 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The images here are a selection from the hundreds sent in by children's book illustrators from all over the world for an exhibition entitled Migrations. Its aim is to express support for and solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of human migrants who face immense difficulties and dangers in their struggle to find a better and safer place to live."-- Page 8.
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The UN Goodwill Ambassador and former "lost boy" survivor of Sudan's tragic North-South civil war traces the inspiring story of his journey from a child soldier and struggling refugee to a Hollywood performer and international peace activist.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This eye-opening memoir tells the story of a young girl's life in Syria, her family's wrenching decision to leave their home, and the upheaval of life in a refugee camp. Though her life had utterly changed, one thing remained the same. She knew that education was the key to a better future--for herself, and so that she could help her country. She went from tent to tent in the camp, trying to convince other kids, especially girls, to come to school....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Few people are aware that in the aftermath of German and Soviet invasions and division of Poland, more than 1.5 million people were deported from their homes in Eastern Poland to remote parts of Russia. Half of them died in labor camps and prisons or simply vanished, some were drafted into the Russian army, and a small number returned to Poland after the war. Those who made it out of Russia alive were lucky--and nine-year-old Krystyna Mihulka was...
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