Refugee Journey

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A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk

by Jan Coates

Age 12 or older

Community: Sudanese/Sudanese American

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Teen Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival: Young Readers’ Edition

by Melissa Fleming

Age 12 or older

Community: Syrian/Syrian American

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 Refugee’s Journey from Iraq

by Ellen Rodger

Age 09 or older

Community: Iraqi/Iraqi American

A Refugee’s Journey from Syria

by Helen Mason

Age 09 or older

Community: Syrian/Syrian American

A Refugee’s Journey from The Democratic Republic of the Congo

by Ellen Rodger

Age 09 or older

Community: Congolese/Congolese American

A Refugee’s Journey from Ukraine

by Ellen Rodger

Age 08 or older

Community: Ukrainian/Ukrainian American

Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival

by Marsha Forchuk Skyrpuch

Age 06 or older

Community: Vietnamese/Vietnamese American

After the Last Border

by Jessica Goudeau

Age 16 or older

Community: Burmese/Burmese American, Muslim/Muslim American, Syrian/Syrian 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

Boy, Everywhere

by A.M. Dassu

Age 09 or older

Community: Syrian/Syrian 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

Butterfly Yellow

by Thanhha Lai

Age 13 or older

Community: Vietnamese/Vietnamese American

Caravan to the North: Misael’s Long Walk

by Jorge Argueta

Age 09 or older

Community: Salvadoran/Salvadoran American

Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War

by Michel Chikwanine

Age 10 or older

Community: Congolese/Congolese American

Counting Kindness: Ten Ways to Welcome Refugee Children

by Hollis Kurman

Age 03 or older

Community: Unspecified (African)

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

by Bana Alabed

Age 14 or older

Community: Syrian/Syrian American

Dia’s Story Cloth

by Dia Cha

Age 06 or older

Community: Hmong/Hmong American

Don’t Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America

by Achut Deng

Age 12 or older

Community: South Sudanese/South Sudanese American

Donde vivire / Where Will I Live?

by Rosemary McCarney

Age 06 or older

Community: Various

Dos Conejos Blancos (Two White Rabbits)

by Jairo Buitrago

Age 05 or older

Community: Unspecified (Hispanic/Latinx)

Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration

by George Butler

Age 10 or older

Community: Burmese/Burmese American, Kenyan/Kenyan American, Unspecified (Middle Eastern)

Drita, My Homegirl

by Jenny Lombard

Age 09 or older

Community: Kosovar/Kosovar American, Muslim/Muslim American

El Unico Destino (The Only Road)

by Alexandra Diaz

Age 09 or older

Community: Guatemalan/Guatemalan American

El viaje / The Journey

by Francesca Sanna

Age 06 or older

Community: Unspecified (Middle Eastern)

Escape from Aleppo

by N. H. Senzai

Age 09 or older

Community: Syrian/Syrian American

Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy

by Andrea Warren

Age 10 or older

Community: Vietnamese/Vietnamese American

Escape: One Day We Had To Run…

by Ming Chen

Age 09 or older

Community: Various
Everything Sad is Untrue

Everything Sad is Untrue

by Daniel Nayeri

Age 10 or older

Community: Iranian/Iranian American

Far From Home: Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution, and Poverty

by Cath Senker

Age 11 or older

Community: Iraqi/Iraqi American, Syrian/Syrian American