Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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[2022]., Adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: HISTORICAL F GON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "There are two versions of Héctor: the public and the private. It's the only way to survive in communist Cuba--especially when your father was exiled to the U.S. and labeled an enemy of the people. Héctor must always be seen as a fierce supporter of the regime, even if that means loudly rejecting the father he still loves. But in the summer of 1980, those two versions are hard to keep separate. No longer able to suppress a public uprising, the Cuban government says it will open the port of Mariel to all who wish to leave the country--if they can find a boat. But choosing to leave comes with a price. Those who want to flee are denounced as traitors by family and friends. There are violent acts of repudiation, and no one knows if they will truly be allowed to leave the country or not. So when Héctor's mother announces that she wants the family to risk everything to go to the United States, he is torn. He misses his father, but Cuba is the only home he has ever known. All his dreams and plans require him to stay. Can he leave everything behind for an unknown future? In a summer of heat and upheaval, danger and deadly consequences, Héctor's two worlds are on a collision course. Will the impact destroy him and everything he loves?"--From the publisher's web site.
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By Lee, Julie[2020]., Juvenile, Holiday House Call No: HISTORICAL F LEE Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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By Lee, Julie[2020]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: F SEN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After Nadia is separated from her family while fleeing the civil war, she spends the next four days with a mysterious old man who helps her navigate the checkpoints and snipers of the rebel, ISIS, and Syrian armies that are littering Aleppo on her way to meeting her father at the Turkish border.
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-- Hold tight, do not let go[2015]., Amulet Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Nadine goes to live with her father in Miami while her cousin Magdalie, raised as her sister, remains behind in a refugee camp, dreaming of joining Nadine but wondering if she must accept that her life and future are in Port-au-Prince.
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By Dassu, A M.[2024]., Pre-adolescent, Tu Books, an imprint of LEE & LOW BOOKS Inc. Call No: REALISTIC F DAS Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While his home life is unraveling, thirteen-year-old Ali organizes a charity soccer match to help his friend Aadam avoid deportation back to Syria.
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[2017], Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F ABD Edition: First [U.S.] editio Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time.
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2017., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Young adult FIC ABDEL-FATTAH Edition: 1st ed., May 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time.
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2019., Juvenile, PUFFIN BOOKS Call No: HISTORICAL F HIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F SKR Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name----and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford, she is haunted by one question: who is she, and where was she stolen from?
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c2008., Adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: Teen Fiction Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident. (Ethnic Diversity).
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c2008, Adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
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c2008., Adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description More... Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
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2023., Pre-adolescent, Levine Querido Call No: REALISTIC F SAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Two brothers fight to reunite amidst the turmoil of the Syrian War. Since the passing of their father, Oscar has tried--and in his little brother Sufyan's eyes, failed--to be the man of his family of Syrian refugees. As Oscar waits in line for rations, longing for the books he left behind when his family fled their home, Sufyan explores more nontraditional methods to provide for his family. Ignoring his brother's warnings, Sufyan gets more and more involved with a group that provides him with big rewards for doing seemingly inconsequential tasks. When the group abruptly gets more intense--taking Sufyan and other boys away from their families, teaching them how to shoot guns--Sufyan realizes his brother is right. But is it too late for Sufyan to get out of this? It's left to the bookish Oscar to rescue his brother and reunite his family. He will have to take charge and be brave in ways he has never dared to before"--Provided by the publisher.
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2021., Primary, Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: E Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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"--Provided by the publisher.
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2021., Primary, Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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"--Provided by publisher.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Annick Press Call No: HISTORICAL F SAE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Growing up in Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can't speak--struck silent by everything he's seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen's charismatic brother, Ali, Yara must try to find a way to safety. With danger around every corner, Yara is pushed to her limits as she discovers how far she'll go for her loved ones--and for a chance for freedom. Crafted through the focused lens of Jamal Saeed's own experiences in Syria and brought to life with acclaimed author Sharon E. McKay, Yara's Spring is a story of coming of age against all odds and the many kinds of love that bloom even in the face of war. Black-and-white interior drawings by award-winning illustrator Nahid Kazemi lend vivid detail to the novel"--From the publisher's web site.
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[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HISTORICAL F BIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1999 Sorrento, Victoria, twelve-year-old Winifred (Fred) grapples with the meaning of home and family amidst a refugee crisis that has divided her town.
