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EncounterJamieson, Victoria
Summary: "Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar's nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future ... but it would also mean leaving his brother, his only family...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALABerne, Emma Carlson
Summary: Tells the stories -- in their own words -- of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 BERTurke, 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,...
Format: text
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 TURJuma, Liliane Leila
Summary: "Liliane Leila Juma was 16 years old when her family home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was destroyed by rebel soldiers. In this gut-wrenching memoir, she gives an account of her life before and after her family was torn apart by the twin nightmares of civil war and invasion. Sincere and revealing, it gives a moving account of a young girl's journey from a protected and secure family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tradewind Books 2020