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Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained. In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prizewinning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself...
2) Sea prayer
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from...
3) The good lie
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
112 pages cm
Description
"Don Brown depicts moments of both heartbreaking horror and hope in the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis. Shining a light on the stories of the survivors, The Unwanted is a testament to the courage and resilience of the refugees and a call to action for all those who read."--Amazon.com.
5) The journey
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Description
"What is it like to have to leave everything behind and travel many miles to somewhere unfamiliar and strange? A mother and her two children set out on such a journey; one filled with fear of the unknown, but also great hope. Based on her interactions with people forced to seek a new home, and told from the perspective of a young child, Francesca Sanna has created a beautiful and sensitive book that is full of significance for our time."-- Provided...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life-affirming tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades-later rememberances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
7) Refugiado
Author
Publisher
loqueleo, Santillana
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Josef es un chico jud?o que vive en la Alemania nazi, Isabel es una chica cubana que se ve obligada a huir de su pa?s despu?s de las revueltas en contra del gobierno de Castro, en 1994, y Mahmoud es un muchacho que padece la guerra de Siria en 2015. Tres j?venes distintos y una misi?n en com?n: huir de su pa?s."--Publisher's description.
Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his...
8) Refugees
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Discusses the events that causes refugees, provides an overview of the organizations and countries that offer them help, and explores things that can be done to help refugees return safely to their homes or begin new lives elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
When war forces people to flee their homes, young refugee Peter carries a cherished family possession throughout a difficult period of survival before reflecting on its importance years later.
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Description
A girl called Rama describes how life changed as conditions got worse in her small town in Syria, and how she and her family finally escaped, undergoing many hardships along the way.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The first-person stories of refugees and migrants fleeing war and persecution for Europe. Told through camera-phone footage filmed by the families themselves as they leave their homes on dangerous journeys seeking safety and refuge.
12) Refugee
Author
Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy livng in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have built a comfortable life for themselves in Toronto with their family nail salon. But when an ultra-glam chain salon opens across the street, their world is rocked. Complicating matters further, their landlord has jacked up the rent and it seems only a matter of time before they lose their business and everything they've built. They enlist the help of their daughter, Jessica, who has just returned home...
Author
Publisher
Anaya
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
¿Quiénes son los refugiados? ¿Por qué tienen que irse de su país? ¿Son siempre bien recibidos en el país de acogida? Abre este sencillo y atrevido libro para comprender por qué un refugiado es alguien como tú y como yo.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Who are refugees? Why are they called that word? Why do they need to leave their country? Why are they sometimes not welcome in their new country? In this relevant picture book for the youngest children, author-illustrator Elise Gravel explores what it means to be a refugee in bold, graphic illustrations and spare text. This is the perfect tool to introduce an important and timely topic to children.
16) The good lie
Publisher
Alcon Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xviii, 366 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of the "terrifically affecting" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Mornings in Jenin, a sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
"When Clemantine was twelve, she and her sister were granted refugee status in the United States; there, in Chicago, their lives diverged. Though their bond remained unbreakable, Claire, who had for so long protected and provided for Clemantine, was a single mother struggling to make ends meet, while Clemantine was taken in by a family who raised her as their own. She seemed to live the American dream: attending private school, taking up cheerleading,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 325 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Description
"In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country. Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides to follow his friend. Their odyssey across land and sea from Afghanistan to Europe brings them face to face with the people at heart of the migration crisis: smugglers, cops, activists, and the men, women and children fleeing war in search of a better life"--
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
351 pages cm
Description
"The Guardian?s first-ever migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to put an indelible face on this overwhelming disaster. Embedding himself alongside the refugees, Kingsley reenacts their flight with hundreds of people across the choppy Mediterranean in the hopes of better understanding who helps or hinders their path to salvation. From the starving migrants who push through sandstorms with children strapped...
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