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1) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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 by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
2) The stranded
Author
Language
English
Description
"Aboard the Arcadia, which was once a luxurious sea vessel but now a refugee camp after an apocalyptic war, loyal citizen Esther and rebel Nik are thrown together by events that change their lives and the lives of everyone on the ship forever"--
3) Illegal
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Setting out to join his brother and sister in Europe, Ebo leaves Ghana, traveling through the Sahara Desert and dangerous streets of Tripoli before braving the merciless sea.
4) Samira surfs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After months of rebuilding a new life in Bangladesh with her family, Samira decides to become a Bengali surfer girl of Cox's Bazar, in this novel in verse about a young Rohingya girl's journey from isolation and persecution to sisterhood, and from fear to power.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Following the end of World War II, Ukrainian sisters Krystia and Maria reunite in a displaced persons camp, where they are falsely accused of collaboration with the Nazis and face interrogation by the Soviets for crimes they never committed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Historical fiction about two siblings and a friend trying to find a new family and a home after the Great Chicago Fire--
10) The night diary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in her diary.
11) Midnight jewel
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When she gains entry into the Glittering Court, war refugee Mira continues to endure persecution while learning skills that help her earn anonymity, forging friendships that inspire her to hatch a daring but dangerous plan.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In an alternate nineteenth-century America that is still a colony of Britain's industrial empire, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees' struggle to survive is interrupted by a newcomer with no memory, bearing secrets about a terrible future.
14) Brother's keeper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
15) Story boat
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When a sister and brother are forced along with their family to flee their home, they learn to make a new home for themselves--wherever they are.
Author
Series
The inventor's secret volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlotte leads her friends to New Orleans, where the resistance against the Empire is based. There, she must figure out where her true loyalties lie--
18) Rebel sisters
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Living a comfortable life in the Space Colonies, Ify, now nineteen and a medical administrator, must return to wartorn Nigeria, where she last saw her sister, to investigate why young refugees from that nation are carrying a deadly virus.
19) The reckoning
Author
Series
Nubia volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho learn to control their supernatural abilities, an ancient force is on the hunt for power, and it will not stop until all of Tri-State East is under its control.
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