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2016., Metropolitan Books Call No: GN Arab vol.2 Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents a graphic novel memoir of the author's childhood in the country of Syria. Having settled into his father's village of Ter Maaleh, Riad begins school, dedicated to becoming a true Syrian. However, as school goes on and things in the country worsen, the family strains to fit in, until finally forced to take a dramatic step to make their lives better.
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2018., Metropolitan Books Call No: GN Arab vol.3 Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Riad and his family experience difficulties in the Syrian village they call home. As Riad grows, he witnesses cruelty all around him and his parents reach their breaking points in the restrictive village, forcing them to make another big decision.
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2022., Adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: HISTORICAL F KAT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they are--not a war, but a revolution.
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[2020], Juvenile, Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: E Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In the midst of the Syrian Civil War, Alaa takes care of Aleppo's abandoned cats"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2020]., Primary, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: E Lat Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In the midst of the Syrian Civil War, Alaa takes care of Aleppo's abandoned cats"--Provided by publisher.
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Primary Call No: E LAT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The courageous and true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, who in the midst of the Syrian Civil War offered safe haven to Aleppo's abandoned cats. Aleppo's city center no longer echoes with the rich, exciting sounds of copper-pot pounding and traditional sword sharpening. His neighborhood is empty--except for the many cats left behind. Alaa loves Aleppo, but when war comes his neighbors flee to safety, leaving their many pets behind. Alaa decides to stay--he can make a difference by driving an ambulance, carrying the sick and wounded to safety. One day he hears hungry cats calling out to him on his way home. They are lonely and scared, just like him. He feeds and pets them to let them know they are loved. The next day more cats come, and then even more! There are too many for Alaa to take care of on his own. Alaa has a big heart, but he will need help from others if he wants to keep all of his new friends safe.
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2019., Picador Call No: Historical Fic Khalifa Edition: First Picador paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Abdel Latif, an old man, dies peacefully in a hospital in Damascus, his final wish told to Bolbol, his youngest son, leads to a family quest to bring Abdel's body back to their family's plot in the ancestral village of Anabiya. The only problem is their country has become a war zone, and the siblings--Bolbol, Hussein, and Fatima--find themselves harassed by militias, captured, released, and recaptured and re-released by different warring factions until their quest becomes a dark and often absurd comedy.
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By Senzai, N Hc2018., Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC SENZAI Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic fiction 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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By Senzai, N H.[2018], Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: REALISTIC 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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[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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By Senzai, N. H[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC SENZAI Edition: 1st Ed. 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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2017., Firefly Books Call No: GN Escape Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When Amina's family's home in Syria is destroyed by a government air strike, her family is forced to live as refuges. This graphic novel depiction of one Syrian family's fight for survival during a deadly civil war follows Amina's family through the chaos that became their lives from the day that changed everything through finding hope in a new country.
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2018., Flatiron Books Call No: B Zamel Edition: First Flatiron Books paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents the story of Syrian refugee Doaa Al Zamel, chronicling her experiences in Syria from 2011 when the civil war began, her path to Egypt and the opposition to refugees she faced there, how she fell in love with a resistance fighter, and ultimately ended up in the frigid waters of the North Sea bound for Sweden, where her quest for survival really began.
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-- A hope more powerful than the sea :[2017], Flatiron Books Call No: 956.9 FLE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of a young Syrian refugee's attempt to reach Sweden, focusing on her ordeal in icy waters after the dilapidated fishing vessel in which she was traveling--along with 500 others--sinks.
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-- A hope more powerful than the sea :[2017]., Flatiron Books Call No: B Zamel Edition: First edition. Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of a young Syrian refugee's attempt to reach Sweden, focusing on her ordeal in icy waters after the dilapidated fishing vessel in which she was traveling--along with 500 others--sinks.
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2018., Adolescent, Flatiron Books Call No: B Fleming Edition: First Flatiron Books young readers' edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea tells the story of Doaa Al-Zamel, a Syrian girl whose life was upended in 2011 by her country’s brutal civil war. She and her family escape to Egypt, where life soon quickly becomes dangerous for Syrians. .
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2017., Primary, Pajama Press Inc. Call No: [Fic] Edition: This is a first edi Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fleeing from a home destroyed in the Syrian Civil War, Sami worries about the pet pigeons he left behind.
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2017., Primary, Pajama Press Inc. Call No: [Fic] Edition: This is a first edi Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fleeing from a home destroyed in the Syrian Civil War, Sami worries about the pet pigeons he left behind.
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[2017]., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition, August 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge: Josef a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany, Isabel a Cuban girl in 1994, and Mahmoud a Syrian boy in 2015.
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2004., Adolescent, Rosen Central Call No: 940.18 HIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The library of the Middle AgesSummary Note: Relates how King Richard I of England and his troops nearly wrested Jerusalem from Muslim leader Saladin and the Saracens during the Third Crusade in 1191 A.D.
