"After the Vietnam War, a young girl is left behind in the care of her grandmother when the rest of her family flees the new communist regime by boat. Once settled in North America, her parents will send for her; but in the...
Refugee children
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Author:Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk, Ho, VanSummary: -
Author:Taylor, LynneSummary:Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:The second book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is Parvana. A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country....
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Author:Zeiss, Joyce BurnsSummary:After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous...
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Author:al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr, Yeung, WinnieSummary:Homes tells the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before the start of the Syrian civil war. It recounts what it was like living in Syria during this time -- the normal things like video...
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Author:Holler, Sue FarrellSummary:"A stranger-than-fiction story based on the real-life experiences of a young boy who was smuggled out of Ethiopia amid political unrest to start a new life from nothing in Calgary, Alberta."--
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List In this book, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to the most tragic victims of the Iraq war -- Iraqi children. She interviews young people, mostly refugees living in Jordan, but also a few...
