refugees

Explores the cultural history of Central Americans and discusses how Central Americans are among the fastest growing minority within the larger minority of Hispanics in the United States. Examines how Central Americans are working to better their home countries as well as the United States.

Follows the journey of seven-year-old Jacob Deng as he flees to Ethiopia when his village in Southern Sudan is attacked by northern militia. After living in refugee camps for several years, Jacob attempts to enter school in Nairobi in order to fulfill his mother's wishes.

In 1982 twelve-year-old Vonlai, his parents, and sister Dalah, escape from Laos to a Thai refugee camp where they spend four long years struggling to survive in hopes of one day reaching America.

Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, and then Kenya, before being offered sanctuary in the United States many years later.

The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.

Presents a short study of what it is like to live in a refugee camp, and follows the experiences of Carbino, a young man who, at age eleven, fled his home in the Sudan after civil war broke out.

Explains what a refugee is, and how war, persecution, economic hardship, and natural disasters cause people to leave their homelands.

As fighting closes in on the village where Tiger's parents have been working, the three of them and a mysterious guide set out on a difficult journey to safety.

In 1944, an Upstate New York teenager named Christine meets and falls in love with Adam, a Yugoslavian Jew living in a refugee camp, despite their parents' conviction that they do not belong together.

Courage and desperation lead fifteen-year-old David and his father to flee Cuba's repressive regime and seek freedom by taking to the sea on a raft headed for Miami.