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Immigrants and Refugees – Book List

  • Fiction

A Long Walk to Water

Park, Linda Sue

Theme: Immigrants and Refugees

Told as duel narrative experiences, this book is based on true experiences of two young survivors in the Sudan, 2008, and 1985.

  • Fiction

Inside Out and Back Again

Lai, Thanhha

Theme: Immigrants and Refugees

In this free verse novel, Kim Ha and her family are forced to move to the United States when their home was endangered by the Vietnam War.

  • Picture Book

Mustafa

Gay, Marie-Louise

Theme: Immigrants and Refugees

Young Mustafa and his family have travelled a long way to reach their new home, where he doesn’t speak the language and feels invisible.

  • Picture Book

My Beautiful Birds

Del Rizzo, Suzanne

Theme: Immigrants and Refugees

A moving story of refugees of the Syrian civil war. Sami worries about the birds he has left behind when his family is forced to flee.

  • Fiction

Paper Wishes

Sepahban, Lois

Theme: Immigrants and Refugees

Manami and her family are forced by the government to leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp.

  • Fiction

Refugee

Gratz, Alan

Theme: Immigrants and Refugees

Three intertwining refugee journeys:  a Jewish boy (1930’s), a Cuban girl (1994), and a Syrian boy (2015), each who leave a homeland torn apart by violence and destruction

  • Picture Book

Spectacularly Beautiful: A refugee’s story

Lucas, Lisa

Theme: Immigrants and Refugees

Shahad’s teacher asks the class to draw pictures of a memory, and the young girls drawing reveals the scars she was stricken with in her home country.

  • Picture Book

Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey

Ruurs, Margriet and Raheem, Falah (translator)

Theme: Immigrants and Refugees

Rama and her family are forced to flee their once peaceful village to escape the ravages of civil war. Intriguing illustrations of figures created with different stones.

  • Non-Fiction

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World

Yousafzai, Malala

Theme: Immigrants and Refugees

Malala Yousafzai explores her own story of adjusting to a new life, and also shares personal stories of nine other remarkable girls who have lost their communities.

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