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XbooksAlabed, Bana
Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALATurke, Rosemarie Lengsfeld
Summary: "Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, American Shoes recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUR1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 TUR
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA 940.53 TURHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 HOPNajem, Muhammad
Summary: "Muhammad Najem was only eight years old when the war in Syria began. He was thirteen when his beloved Baba, his father, was killed in a bombing while praying. By fifteen, Muhammad didn't want to hide anymore--he wanted to act. He was determined to reveal what families like his were enduring in Syria: bombings by their own government and days hiding in dark underground shelters. Armed with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Johnson, Jennifer
Summary: "Explains the history of the battle at Gettysburg during the Civil War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Shelton, Paula Young
Summary: Paula Young Shelton grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family--and thousands of others--in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021