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Publisher
Java Films Exclusives
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Since 2011, an estimated 9 million Syrians -- half of them children -- have fled their homes due to the civil war. BORN IN SYRIA follows seven of these young, displaced children for a year witnessing everything through their eyes: their escape from Syria, their travel through the refugee camps in the Middle East, and their arrival into the promised land of Europe. With a soundtrack composed by Gabriel Yared, this feature-length documentary reveals...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Animal Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
"In this memorable story, a young boy finds solace flying his kite from the rooftop after soldiers take his father and brother away. Without his father and brother, the young boy's life is turned upside down. He and his family have to stay inside, along with everyone else in town. At suppertime, he can't stop looking at the two empty places at the table and his sister can't stop crying. The boy looks out the window and is chilled to see a tank's spotlight...
3) War
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning, stunningly illustrated, sober depiction of war. A recipient of the prestigious Nami Concours prize, this remarkable book of striking, often surreal illustrations and sparse prose reveals the many sides of war: where it comes from, how it creeps up on us, and how it destroys everything in its wake. During a time when wars are fought around the world, this evocative and bold interpretation may serve as a vehicle for difficult yet...
4) War is over
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's father is fighting in the trenches far away in France, while his mother works in a menacing munitions factory just along the road. His teacher says that John is fighting, too, that he is at war with enemy children in Germany. One day, in the wild woods outside town, John has an impossible moment: a dreamlike meeting with a German boy named Jan. John catches a glimpse of a better world, in which children like...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In war-shattered Eastern Europe, a photographer captures the image of a girl fleeing her home and family as they go up in flames. Bringing the girl to America is meant to lift the photographer's deeply depressed best friend, who was particularly moved by the photograph, but soon the questions start.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"Separated from his family when they were forced to flee their home, a young East African boy named Deo lives alone in the Lukole refugee camp in Tanzania. With scarce resources at the camp, bullies have formed gangs to steal what they can, and a leader named Remy has begun targeting Deo. Then one day a coach gathers all the children to play soccer. Though Deo loves soccer and has even made his own ball out of banana leaves, he's unsure at first about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Michel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his schoolyard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a soldier for a brutal rebel militia. Against the odds, Michel managed to escape and find his way back to his family, but he was never the same again. After immigrating to Canada, Michel was encouraged by a teacher to share what happened to him in order to raise awareness about child soldiers around the...
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"'I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins' Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on his own experiences as a child in Japan during the Second World War.They are stories of a lonely whale searching the oceans for a mate, who sacrifices...
Author
Publisher
Vivat vydavnyt︠s︡tvo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
Vira keeps a diary of the first days of Russian invasion.
Koly nastai︠u︡tʹ kanikuly, shkoli︠a︡ri vidpochyvai︠u︡tʹ abo podoroz︠h︡ui︠u︡tʹ. Ta t︠s︡ʹoho razu kanikuly u Viry ne zvychaĭni, a vymusheni: sprychyneni viĭnoi︠u︡. Razom iz batʹkamy ĭ menshym bratykom divchynka pereïz︠h︡dz︠h︡ai︠e︡ u pidval svoi︠e︡ï bahatopoverkhivky, khovai︠u︡chysʹ vid obstriliv. Simi︠a︡ namahai︠e︡tʹsi︠a︡...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the adult memoir, an intimate portrait of modern immigration describes how the author's family was forced by war to leave their home in Somalia before he received an opportunity to win the annual U.S. visa lottery.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Kenan loves drawing and playing soccer with his friends. He wants to be a famous athlete, hates it when his classmates trash his buck teeth by calling him 'Bugs Bunny,' and fights with his big brother, who's too busy and cool for him lately. Sometimes his parents drive him crazy, but he feels loved and protected-until the war ruins everything. Soon, Kenan's family is trapped in their home with little food or water, surrounded by enemies. Ten long...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jewish Childhood in Kraków is the first history to tell the wartime history of Kraków through the lens of Jewish children's experiences. Historian Joanna Sliwa examines what children under 14 years old experienced when the second World War broke out. How did they cope? What roles did they take on? In this story, children assume center stage as historical actors whose recollections and experiences deserve to be told, analyzed, and treated seriously....
Author
Series
Publisher
Editions du Seuil
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
"Birahima, le narrateur de ce roman, a une douzaine d'années et il retrace son itinéraire d'enfant-soldat de l'Afrique contemporaine, entre le Liberia et la Sierra Leone. Orphelin, jeté sur les routes en compagnie d'un marabout mi-philosophe mi-escroc, Birahima se fait enrôler dans une bande de pillards. Kalachnikov en bandoulière, pour gagner sa solde, il va bientôt participer aux pires exactions : 'De camp retranché en ville investie, /.../...
17) Bytva za misto
Author
Publisher
Artbooks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
"Battle of the City is a book that was born during the war and is meant to be a kind of symbol of hope for a speedy victory." --
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