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21) Nowhere boy
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"Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime"--
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Hamid's (The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia) trim yet poignant fourth novel addresses similar themes as his previous work and presents a unique perspective on the global refugee crisis. In an unidentified country, young Saeed and burqa-wearing Nadia flee their home after Saeed's mother is killed by a stray bullet and their city turns increasingly dangerous due to worsening violent clashes between the government and...
24) Pegasus: a novel
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The story of a family reinventing itself in America, while the country they left behind is engulfed in flames and madness, and men like Alex von Hemmerle are forced to make unbearable choices. Alexs daughter will find sanctuary in England. In America, his sons will find a future, and their left-behind world will eventually find them.
26) The Afghan
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A bored teen and an Afghan refugee become friend and become in a harrowing journey together.
29) The treasure box
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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.
30) Margot
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A reimagining of the life of Anne Frank's sister Margot, Margie Franklin. Working as a secretary at a Jewish law firm in Philadelphia, she finds her life falling apart when her sister becomes a global icon.
31) Goodbye, Vietnam
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Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.
32) The clay marble
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Fleeing their war-torn Cambodian village in early 1980, twelve-year-old Dara and her family establish a makeshift home at a refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border. Then shelling and fighting separate Dara from her family and she must overcome her fear and lack of confidence to find them again.
34) The night diary
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Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
36) Boy, everywhere
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Sami loves his life in Damascus, Syria, but when war breaks out his parents decide they must flee their home for the safety of the UK.
37) Illegal
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Setting out to join his brother and sister in Europe, Ebo leaves Ghana, traveling through the Sahara Desert and dangerous streets of Tripoli before braving the merciless sea.
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Public defender Julia Geary longs for a breakout case. Tt arrives when members of the high school soccer team report seeing a teammate-- Iraqi refugee Sami Mohammed-- assaulting a girl in the locker room. In a town where animosity against refugees has reached a fever pitch, Julia finds an ally in high school principal Dom Parrish, who believes Sami is innocent. Then Julia receives vicious threats against her family, and a senseless act of violence...
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Tommy Wieringa traces two stories doomed to collide. In one, he follows a group of starving, near-feral Eurasian refugees on a harrowing quest for survival; in the other, he follows Pontus Beg, a policeman from a small border town on the steppe, as he investigates the death of a rabbi, one of the town's two remaining Jews.
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