Refugees / Migration

Who Are Refugees and Migrants? What Makes People Leave Their Homes? and Other Big Questions by Michael Rosen; Annemarie Young

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Category: Geography | Series: And Other Big Questions

What does it mean for people to have to leave their homes, and what happens when they seek entry to another country? This book explores the history of refugees and migration around the world and the effects on people of never-ending war and conflict. It compares the effects on society of diversity and ...Show more

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Migrants by Issa Watanabe

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Category: Picture Books

The migrants must leave the forest. Borders are crossed, sacrifices made, loved ones are lost. It takes such courage to reach the end. At last the journey is over and the migrants arrive. This is the new place. With forceful simplicity, Migrants narrates the journey of a group of animals leaving a leaf ...Show more

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Hope in a Ballet Shoe by Michaela DePrince

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Category: Biography

Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnesses atrocities that no child ever should. Her father is killed by rebels and her mother dies of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela is mistreated and she sees the brutal murder of her favourite ...Show more

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Zenobia by Morten Durr

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Category: Everyday Life

A deeply moving and award-winning graphic novel about a young Syrian refugee. Zenobia was once a great warrior queen of Syria whose reign reached from Egypt to Turkey. She was courageous. No one gave her orders. Once she even went to war against the emperor of Rome. When things feel overwhelming ...Show more

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Detention by Tristan Bancks

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Category: Middle Fiction (8-12)

A daring escape. A school lockdown. A thrilling chase. What would you risk to save a life?Share thisSima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the tall fence designed to keep them in. The wires are cut one by one.When they make their escape, a guard ra ...Show more

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Teacup (PB) by Rebecca Young

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Category: Picture Books

Once there was a boy who had to leave home... and find another. In his bag he carried a book, a bottle and a blanket. In his teacup he held some earth from where he used to play. This is one boy's story of leaving his homeland, surviving a long journey by sea... and finding a safe, new place to call hom e. ...Show more

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Songs of a War Boy (Young Readers Edition) by Deng Thiak Adut; Ben Mckelvey

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Category: Biography

Deng Adut was six years old when war came to his village in South Sudan. Taken from his mother, he was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He was taught to use an AK-47 then sent into battle. Shot in the back, dealing with illness and the relentless brutality of war, Deng's future was b ...Show more

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The Little Refugee by Anh Do; Suzanne Do

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Category: Picture Books

Anh Do's inspirational story about his family's incredible escape from war-torn Vietnam and his childhood in Australia, told especially for children. Giant waves crashed down on our little boat. I was terrified but my mum hugged me tight and told me, "Everything will be okay. Don't worry, it will be oka ...Show more

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Illegal: A Graphic Novel Telling One Boy's Epic Journey of Hope and Survival by Eoin Colfer; Andrew Donkin

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Category: Everyday Life

This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer, previously Irish Children's Laureate, and the team behind his bestselling Artemis Fowl graphic novels. Ebo: alone. His s ...Show more

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My Two Blankets (Arabic and English) by Irena Kobald

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Category: Radical Kindness

Cartwheel has arrived in a new country, and feels the loss of all she's ever known. She creates a safe place for herself under an 'old blanket' made out of memories and thoughts of home. As time goes on, Cartwheel begins to weave a new blanket, one of friendship and a renewed sense of belonging. It is d ...Show more

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Sugar in Milk by Thrity Umrigar; Khoa Le (Illustrator)

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Category: Refugees / Migration

A timely and timeless picture book about immigration, refugees, acceptance, and tolerance from a bestselling author. STARRED KIRKUS REVIEW When I first came to this country, I felt so alone. A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with l ...Show more

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Flight by Nadia Wheatley

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Category: Picture Books

Tonight is the night. The family has to flee. They've been tipped off that the authorities are after their blood. Set in biblical times, a small family sets off across a desert in search of refuge from persecution in their own country, and an ancient story becomes a fable for our times. Their journey is ...Show more

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Who Are Refugees and Migrants? What Makes People Leave Their Homes? and Other Big Questions by Michael Rosen; Annemarie Young