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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Never in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home--more than 65 million globally. Unsparing, outspoken, vital, We Are Not Refugees tells the stories of many of these displaced, who have not been given asylum. For over a decade, human rights journalist Agus Morales has journeyed to the sites of the world's most brutal conflicts and spoken to the victims of violence and displacement. To Syria, Afghanistan,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The untold story of climate migration-the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future"--
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, an award-winning science journalist, in this urgent call to action, discusses the underreported, seismic consequences of climate change and how it will reshape humanity.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Five refugees recount their courageous journeys to America -- and the unimaginable struggles that led them to flee their homelands -- in a powerful work from the author of Beyond Magenta and We Are Here to Stay. "From 1984, when I was born, until July 16, 2017, when I arrived in the United States, I never lived in a place where there was no war." -- Fraidoon An Iraqi woman who survived capture by ISIS. A Sudanese teen growing up in civil war and...
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the popular podcast, Asylum Speakers is a collection of 31 stories of migration, from those leaving everything they know behind them, to those working alongside them. Here are the voices that often go unheard: the humans behind the statistics and the headlines. From Syria to Venezuela, Eritrea to Afghanistan, Asylum Speakers will transcend borders, nationalities, religions, and languages, connecting you to the people with whom we share this...
Author
Series
McAlister family novels volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this historical adventure for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, the three youngest McAllister children are taken to Canada as British Home Children without their mother's knowledge or permission. The oldest McAllister sibling follows them across the Atlantic to search for them and bring them home. When Laura McAllister, a young lady's maid, learns her three siblings have been taken from their mother and emigrated to Canada...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Every afternoon a woman in a red headscarf walks to the end of the quay and looks out over the water, fixing her gaze 'back there'--to Diego Garcia, one of the small islands forming the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. With no explanation, no warning, and only an hour to pack their belongings, the Chagossians were forced on a boat headed to Mauritius. Government officials tell Charlesia that the island is 'closed'-- there is no going back...
Author
Series
Hakim's odyssey volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Hakim, a young Syrian who must leave everything behind: his family, his friends,his own business, his country... Because war broke out, because he was tortured, because family and friends were disappeared. Because anywhere had to be better than home, at least for now. A powerful and touching eyewitness account of what it means to be human in an inhumane world."-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Hakim's odyssey volume 2
Publisher
Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope in the birth of his son. But between unstable jobs and selling what he can in the streets, it's hard to survive--and impossible for the family to stay together. Reluctantly separated from the woman he loves and alone with his child, Hakim will have to overcome incredible odds and seemingly impossible obstacles to reunite his family, which leads him to make the most difficult decision of...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1863, after the end of the US-Dakota War, a group of white men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society, pledging to expel the Ho-Chunk people from the nearby Blue Earth reservation with the goal of claiming for themselves some of the richest farmland in the world." -- Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972.--
15) Stealing home
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A gripping story of boy's experience in a WWII Japanese internment camp Sandy Saito is obsessed with baseball - especially the Asahi team, the pride of his community in Vancouver, British Columbia. But when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, his life, like that of every North American of Japanese descent, changes forever. His friends start calling him names and chasing him from the baseball field. His family if forbidden from visiting certain areas...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Almadía
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Quién mejor para descubrir las historias de los migrantes deportados que un periodista que ha encontrado su vocación en el nomadismo? A finales del gobierno de Barack Obama y principios del de Donald Trump, Leonardo Tarifeño viajó una otra vez a Tijuana para conocer a esos 'bad hombres' que de un momento a otro se quedaron sin nada. Perseguidos en Estados Unidos por un aparato judicial racista, los personajes que Tarifeño presenta en NON VEULVAS...
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