When Soviet troops invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the last days of World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu Kimura must care for her younger sister as they struggle to survive and return to Japan.

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.

The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.

"With forceful simplicity, Migrants narrates the journey of a group of animals leaving a leafless forest. Borders must be crossed, sacrifices made, loved ones left behind"--

Abia is the self-proclaimed Queen of the Shimelba refugee camp, facing her displacement with strength, imagination, and pride.

"A young girl and family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have traveled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll" -- Back cover.

In the 1940s, remote Les Lauzes, France, houses Jews, unregistered foreigners, forgers, and others who take great risks to shelter refugees and smuggle them to safety in Switzerland.

Alice embellishes posters with the words she cannot speak due to a brain injury suffered during a sexual assault, but she discovers an unlikely match in Manny, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, when he finds one of her poems.

A retelling of the nativity story from a perspective emphasizing the struggle of Mary and Joseph as refugees--

"In this spare, poetic picture book based on author Muon Van's family history and told through a series of wishes, a family packs up everything they own and embarks on a perilous oceanic voyage toward a better life"--