Multcolib Hollywood picks: Refugee experience in teen literatureLike this list

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• City of Saints & Thieves

  Anderson, Natalie C.,

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  When she was a young child, Tina fled with her mother to Sangui City, Kenya from Congo. Now in her teens, five years after her mother’s murder, Tina is determined to get revenge on her mother’s murderer. With her friend Boyboy, and her former best…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lines We Cross

  Abdel-Fattah, Randa,

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  Michael, who attends anti-immigration rallies with his parents, starts to question his family's politics when he create a friendship with a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan.

• Saint Death

  Sedgwick, Marcus,

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  A novel about the illicit human and drug trade at the US-Mexican border.

• Salt to the Sea

  a Novel

  Sepetys, Ruta,

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  Based on true events, this World War II novel set in East Prussia during the winter of 1945 follows the plight of refugees as Germany tries to evacuate soldiers and civilians. Four teens, from different backgrounds, and each with a dark secret,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Land Is Our Land

  a History of American Immigration

  Osborne, Linda Barrett, 1949-

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  Explores the evolution and history of governmental policy around immigration and how it is often driven by popular responses to feelings on race and ethnicity, economic conditions, and fear of foreign political concerns.

• The Distance Between Us

  Grande, Reyna,

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  In this adaptation of her memoir, award-winning author Grande chronicles her life, from living in Guerrero, Mexico, as a child to attending college in the United States.

• An Olympic Dream

  the Story of Samia Yusuf Omar

  Kleist, Reinhard, 1970-

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  After Samia Yusuf Omar competed in running at the 2008 Beijing Olympics representing Somalia, she was determined to compete again at the 2012 London games. When the Islamist militia Al-Shabaab harassed and threatened to kill her, she fled through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Only Road

  Diaz, Alexandra,

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  After the local gang kills his beloved cousin, Jaime and his cousin Ángela are targeted as the next recruits. Their families quickly put together the funds to send them north to try to make a crossing to the United States where Jaime’s older brother…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Lived on Butterfly Hill

  Agosín, Marjorie,

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  Based on true events in Chile during the 1970s, Celeste is sent to America after Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government. There she worries over her parents who have disappeared into hiding, and tries to adapt to her new life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Good Braider

  a Novel

  Farish, Terry,

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  This free-verse novel follows Viola a Sudanese refugee’s journey from her home in ravaged Sudan to Cairo and finally to the Sudanese community in Maine. She is forever haunted by harrowing memories of she’s lost as she tries to build a new life.

• Now Is the Time for Running

  Williams, Michael, 1962-

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  After Deo's Zimbabwe village is ravaged by soldiers, he must flee with his older brother, Innocent, who is mentally disabled. With no shoes and very little money, the two set out on a journey where they face constant prejudice against refugees and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Long Walk to Water

  a Novel

  Park, Linda Sue,

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  Based on a true story about Sudanese civil war, follows both young Salva, who becomes separated from his family after his village is attacked in 1985. Salva’s faces a harrowing journey walking across the southern region of Sudan to Kenya, as he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Time of Miracles

  Bondoux, Anne-Laure

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  Set in the early 1990s in the war-torn Republic of Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Seven-year-old Koumaïl and his guardian, Gloria, flee violent unrest and begin a five-year arduous journey across the Caucasus toward France. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Children of War

  Voices of Iraqi Refugees

  Ellis, Deborah, 1960-

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  Through interviews with displaced Iraqi kids and teens between the ages 8 and 19 they discuss how the Iraq war has affected their lives.

• The Day of the Pelican

  Paterson, Katherine

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  Set during the war in Kosovo during the 1990s this follows Meli, an Albanian Muslim girl, and her family as they flee the violence escalating in their small town. They embark on a terrible two year journey from their uncle’s farm to a crowded…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Arrival

  Tan, Shaun,

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  The sense of displacement and awe are explored of what it feels like to be an immigrant in a new world in this wordless graphic novel.

• The Other Side of Truth

  Naidoo, Beverley

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  After their mother is shot and killed by assassins' bullets meant for their outspoken journalist father, Sade Solaja and younger brother, Femi, are hastily smuggled out of Nigeria and taken to London and abandoned after their uncle fails to meet…Read moreRead more of this annotation