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Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color, with some black and white sequences) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The intimate stories of refugees and migrants, caught in Europe's tightened borders. Amid the ongoing migration crisis, the film follows personal journeys over two years, as countries become less welcoming to those seeking refuge.
82) Los ninos de la estrella amarilla: la esperanza encontrada en Le Chambon-sur-Lignon : una novela
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
Español
83) Butterfly yellow
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 654 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia and Another Country profiles refugees from around the world who emigrate to the United States.
In cities and towns all over the country, refugees arrive daily. Lost Boys from Sudan, survivors from Kosovo, families fleeing Afghanistan and Vietnam: they come with nothing but the desire to experience the American dream. Their endurance in the face of tragedy
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
94 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles thirty six immigrants to the United States who have made notable contributions to sports, science, politics, and the arts, including Madeleine Albright, Albert Einstein, John Muir, Martina Navratilova, and Carlos Santana.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Living in a refugee camp in Thailand, young Mai spends her days listening to Hmong women as they stitch pa'ndau--brightly colored story cloths--and preparing to find her own story of hope and faith to stitch.
88) Exhibit #8
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When refugee Aisha and cameraman Elias decide to shoot a documentary on the mysterious disappearance of Aisha's brother, they discover the dark truth and cross paths with another film crew, who are creating an even more sinister narrative.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
328 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
A young Nigerian girl, displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community until the pair are discovered and must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices.
90) Americanah
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
605 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 77 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
From August to October 1942, over 2250 Jews were deported from the internment camp of Rivesaltes to Auschwitz by way of Drancy. Among them were 110 children. Friedel Bohny-Reiter, a nurse with the Swiss Aid to Children, worked in this camp in the South of France.
Author
Language
English
Description
A rich boy turned refugee tells the story of coming full circle to succeed in ways beyond his imagination.
Born into a family that had recently fled British India during the partition of India and Pakistan, Ram' s early life in Mombasa seemed charmed with wealth and success. However, losing all of this overnight through a second deportation this time from Kenya to the UK, he saw the course of his life change beyond recognition.
Despite having had...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this rare account from within ICE detention facilities, fourteen children are followed from their arrest by U.S. Border Patrol to the day they exit facilities for unaccompanied minors. Preschoolers and teenagers, the kids offer a range of evocative backstories: a deaf and mute fifteen-year-old Mayan girl; a teen from India who has walked three thousand miles; a Guatemalan girl who has escaped domestic slavery and is on the run with her young siblings....
95) Mare Nostrum
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"On the bridges to those slippery worlds, we are wrapped in gold foil, disease free. Who is saving whom? The question's not stated, only implied." In 2013, the Italian government implemented Mare Nostrum, an operation intended to limit immigration from Africa and the Middle East to European countries. For the refugees, the journeys were harrowing, often ending in shipwrecks or imprisonment, and the arrivals were wracked with uncertainty. Here, the...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
En numerosos puntos del planeta hay masas de población necesitadas de ayuda urgente. Llegar a tiempo lleva consigo salvar muchas vidas humanas, o perderlas. ¿Cómo afronta la ONU esas crisis humanitarias? ¿Por qué a veces su ayuda no es más eficaz?
Tras décadas de experiencia en el corazón de la ONU y en destinos difíciles, el autor ofrece un sincero análisis sobre las luchas internas en la sede central de Naciones Unidas, el trabajo entre...
Author
Language
English
Description
Finalist for a 2019 Sidewise Award
"Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling. . . . smart, thought-provoking, and thoroughly enjoyable." —Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown
Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States—an alternate
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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
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong. An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands; a mother and daughter harvest earthworms in the middle of the night; a country music-obsessed housewife abandons her family for fantasy; and a young girl's...
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.
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