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1) Pegasus
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A multigenerational narrative inspired by the author's own family history traces the efforts of an aristocratic German family to find refuge for themselves and their magnificent horses in post-World War II America.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After fleeing the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, Aleida's search for her missing child sets her on a collision course with Hugh, a charismatic BBC radio correspondent. During the London Blitz, they will risk their lives to discover the truth--and find a connection closer than they could have ever imagined.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Author
Series
Lily's crossing volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As violence...
6) Sea prayer
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 13
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sunday, September 3rd, 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht-the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to the United Kingdom, which he boarded alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz, a blind seven-year-old girl, and her mother board another train,...
10) The illegal
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary, resonant novel about a man on the run.
11) The Here and Now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, The Here and Now is an epic star-crossed romance about a girl who might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to.
Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love.
The world Prenna James comes from is in ruins. She and the others who...
Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love.
The world Prenna James comes from is in ruins. She and the others who...
12) A faraway island
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait in seperate foster homes for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
13) City of secrets
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A tale of the underground resistance in Jerusalem after World War II.
14) The houseguest
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A novel that explores the experience of America's Jews on the eve of the Holocaust--as masses of refugees seeking to escape Europe are turned away from American shores.
Author
Series
Jesus volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of Davíd, Simón, and Inés.
16) The refugees
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories, written over a twenty-year period, examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 1936, the Nazis are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered...
19) Refugees
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Dawn, a sixteen-year-old runaway from San Francisco, connects by phone and email with Johar, a gentle, fifteen-year-old Afghani who assists Dawn's foster mother, a doctor, at a Red Cross refugee camp in Peshawar.
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