Search Results: Returned 6 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 6
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c1992., Juvenile, H. Holt Call No: WWII NF DRU Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.
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[2016]., Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 956.9104 MUS Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells of the grueling sixteen-month odyssey by foot, boat, and bus from Syria to Germany by sixteen-year-old Nujeen Mustafa who is confined to a wheelchair by cerebral palsy.
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2015., Graphic Universe Call No: B Edition: First American edit Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A graphic novel chronicling the lives of the author and illustrator's parents in East Germany, before the Berlin Wall fell, while the Socialist Unity Party of Germany was in power. Explores the hardships of life under communism and why the author's parents tried to leave and get into West Germany.
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2015., Graphic Universe Call No: WAR Edition: 1st American ed. pu Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Simon Schwartz was born in 1982 in the GDR (East Germany). One and a half years later, he left the country with his parents, and the family resettled in West Berlin. As political dissidents, his parents experienced harassment by the Stasi and a lack of understanding from members of their own family. This graphic novel memoir chronicles the family's difficult journey to get to the other side of the Berlin Wall"--Provided by publisher.
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Three stars in the night sky : a refugee family's odyssey of separation and reunion to face its past2018, c2018., Pre-adolescent, Gussie Rose Press Call No: 940.53 CHAPMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came to America all by herself. Decades before the label gained recognition, she became what's now known as an unaccompanied minor. Gerda's story of family separation reflects the dislocating trauma, culture shock, and excruciating loneliness many unaccompanied minor immigrants experience. As Gerda becomes an American, she never stops longing to be reunited with her family. Three Stars in the Night Sky illuminates the personal damage of racism in three countries---Nazi Germany, the Dominican Republic, and the United States during the 1930s and 40s---and the emotional devastation of a child coming to a new country alone.
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Three stars in the night sky : a refugee family's odyssey of separation and reunion to face its past[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Gussie Rose Press Call No: HI-INT 940.53 CHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came to America all by herself. Decades before the label gained recognition, she became what's now known as an unaccompanied minor. Gerda's story of family separation reflects the dislocating trauma, culture shock, and excruciating loneliness many unaccompanied minor immigrants experience. As Gerda becomes an American, she never stops longing to be reunited with her family. Three Stars in the Night Sky illuminates the personal damage of racism in three countries---Nazi Germany, the Dominican Republic, and the United States during the 1930s and 40s---and the emotional devastation of a child coming to a new country alone.
