Iraqi/Iraqi American

A Season for Building Houses
Age 12 or older
Themes: Anthology, Coming of Age, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Parents, Genre: Poetry, Multilingual: Various, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Camp, Refugee Journey, Refugee: Unspecified, Refugee: War/Conflict
Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees
Age 12 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Separation: On Journey, Refugee: Asylee, Refugee: War/Conflict, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
Far From Home: Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution, and Poverty
Age 11 or older
Themes: Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict
Hidden
Age 12 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Deportation, Refugee: Undocumented, Refugee: War/Conflict
Hollow Fires
Age 12 or older
Themes: Discrimination: Racial, Discrimination: Religious, Generation: 1st, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees
Age 14 or older
Themes: Educator Resource, Engagement Tool: Discussion, Genre: Historical, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Recommended: "Cartography" Companion Reads, Refugee Journey, Refugee: Sexual Violence, Refugee: Undocumented, Refugee: War/Conflict
IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq
Age 12 or older
Themes: Education & Literacy, Refugee: War/Conflict
Lost Boys
Age 10 or older
Themes: Family Separation: By Detention, Human Rights Violation: Child Soldiers, Loss of Childhood, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
No Safe Place
Age 12 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Human Rights Violation: Trafficking, Migrant Smuggling, Refugee: Undocumented, Refugee: War/Conflict, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
Not The Girls You’re Looking For
Age 12 or older
Themes: Celebrations: Ramadan, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Siblings, LGBTQIA+, Multiracial Identity, Religious Background: Muslim
Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein
Age 09 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Loss of Childhood, Religious Background: Muslim
Remembering Mom’s Kubbat Halab
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Parents, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
Silent Music
Age 05 or older
Themes: Educator Resource, Loss of Childhood, The Arts, Welcoming Library: Core Picture Books (Current)
The Aurantium Tree
Age 04 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Religious Background: Muslim, Welcoming by Community
The White Zone
Age 09 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Discrimination: Religious, Loss of Childhood, Religious Background: Muslim