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A Land of Permanent Goodbyes

by Atia Abawi

Age 14 or older

Community: Syrian/Syrian American

A Long Walk to Water

by Linda Sue Park

Age 09 or older

Community: Sudanese/Sudanese American

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

Age 16 or older

Community: Sierra Leonean/Sierra Leonean American

Alas salvajes (Wings in the Wild)

by Margarita Engle

Age 12 or older

Community: Cuban/Cuban American

Alive in the Killing Fields

by Nawuth Keat

Age 12 or older

Community: Cambodian/Cambodian American

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

by Zoulfa Katouh

Age 14 or older

Community: Syrian/Syrian American

Barely Missing Everything

by Matt Mendez

Age 14 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

by Mary Williams

Age 07 or older

Community: South Sudanese/South Sudanese American

Calling the Water Drum

by LaTisha Redding

Age 04 or older

Community: Haitian/Haitian American

Casi alcanzar todo (Barely Missing Everything)

by Matt Mendez

Age 14 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War

by Michel Chikwanine

Age 10 or older

Community: Congolese/Congolese American

Crossing the Farak River

by Michelle Aung Thin

Age 11 or older

Community: Muslim/Muslim American, Pakistani/Pakistani American

Dear World: A Syrian Girl’s Story of War and Plea for Peace

by Bana Alabed

Age 14 or older

Community: Syrian/Syrian American

Every Body Looking

by Candice Iloh

Age 12 and older

Community: Nigerian/Nigerian American

Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from Madison and Milwaukee High Schools

by Tea Rozman Clark

Age 12 or older

Community: Various

Hamid’s Story: A Real-Life Account of His Journey from Eritrea

by Andy Glynne

Age 05 or older

Community: Eritrean/Eritrean American

La tierra de las grullas

by Aida Salazar

Age 08 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

Land of the Cranes

by Aida Salazar

Age 08 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

Let’s Go Swimming on Doomsday

by Natalie C. Anderson

Age 12 or older

Community: Somali/Somali American

Lost Boys

by Darcey Rosenblatt

Age 10 or older

Community: Iranian/Iranian American, Iraqi/Iraqi American

My Beautiful Birds

by Suzanne Del Rizzo

Age 06 or older

Community: Syrian/Syrian American

Never Fall Down

by Patricia McCormick

Age 12 or older

Community: Cambodian/Cambodian American

Nobody’s Pilgrims

by Sergio Troncoso

Age 16 or older

Community: Unspecified (Hispanic/Latinx), Various (Hispanic/Latinx)

Now is the Time for Running

by Michael Williams

Age 09 or older

Community: South African/South African American, Zimbabwean/Zimbabwean American

Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein

by Ali Fadhil

Age 09 or older

Community: Iraqi/Iraqi American
Refugee 87

Refugee 87

by Ele Fountain

Age 10 or older

Community: Unspecified (African)

Saving the Butterfly: A Story about Refugees

by Helen Cooper

Age 04 or older

Community: Unspecified

Selavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope

by Youme Nguyen Ly

Age 04 or older

Community: Haitian/Haitian American

Silent Music

by James Rumford

Age 05 or older

Community: Iraqi/Iraqi American

Soldier Boy

by Keely Hutton

Age 12 or older

Community: Ugandan/Ugandan American

Solito: A Memoir (English Edition)

by Javier Zamora

Age 12 or older

Community: Salvadoran/Salvadoran American

Solito: A Memoir (Spanish Edition)

by javier Zamora

Age 12 or older

Community: Salvadoran/Salvadoran American