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My beautiful birds

"Fleeing a home destroyed in the Syrian Civil War, Sami worries about the pet pigeons he left behind. Even in the relative safety of a refugee camp, the boy struggles to participate in daily activities, consumed by thoughts of safety of what he has lost. At last, when new birds need of care enter his life, Sami begins the long road to healing"--Publisher.

Mud city

When fourteen-year-old Shauzia flees from a refugee camp in Pakistan, she becomes a street kid and begs for money with a dog named Jasper by her side.

Hold tight, don't let go

a novel of Haiti
2015
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Nadine goes to live with her father in Miami while her cousin Magdalie, raised as her sister, remains behind in a refugee camp, dreaming of joining Nadine but wondering if she must accept that her life and future are in Port-au-Prince.

Baddawi

2015
"Coming-of-age story about a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the thousands of Palestinians who fled their homeland after the war in 1948 established the state of Israel. In this ... graphic novel, Leila Abdelrazaq explores her father's childhood in the 1960s and '70s from a boy's eye view as he witnesses the world crumbling around him and attempts to carry on, forging his own path in the midst of terrible uncertainty"--OCLC.

Blue gold

2014
Across continents, the lives of three teen girls are affected by the "blue gold" trade.

Lost girl found

2014
When war comes to a small village in southern Sudan, young Poni must run for her life and begins a long and dangerous trek across the east African countryside with thousand of refugees to a camp in Kenya, but along the way many die from starvation, land mines, wild animals and despair.

Refugee workers

2007
Describes the challenges and rewards of being a refugee worker--people who help protect and provide aid to refugees, and explains how people become refugee workers.

Liberation 1945

1995
Examines the liberation of the concentration and death camps in 1945 and the creation of displaced persons camps.

Four feet, two sandals

Two ten-year-old refugee girls each get one sandal of a matching pair. They solve the problem of four feet and two sandals.

The whispering cloth

a refugee's story
1995
A young girl in a Thai refugee camp finds the story within herself to create her own pa'ndau.

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