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Tag: Refugees

June 21, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

A day in the life of a refugee-turned-advocate, a guest post by Muzoon Almellehan

Muzoon Almellehan, a Syrian refugee and advocate for refugees and education, gives us a peek into her busy life.

September 23, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: Finding Refuge: Real-Life Immigration Stories from Young People by Victorya Rouse

A great resource to help create personal connections and understanding. Readers who have their own immigration story will likely see their experience and feelings reflected in these pages.

February 11, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: A Pho Love Story by Loan Le

With a heavy focus on families, history, expectations, and secrets, this love story will leave readers satisfied.

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Book Review: The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown

September 13, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities of living in, and trying to escape, a war zone.    Starting in 2011, refugees flood out […]

Book Review: Dream Country by Shannon Gibney

September 11, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom. Dream Country begins in suburban Minneapolis at the moment when seventeen-year-old Kollie Flomo begins to crack under the strain of his life as a Liberian refugee. He’s exhausted by being at once too black […]

On World Refugee Day 2018, #ReadForChange with Alan Gratz’ Refugee

June 20, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor

Teen Librarian Toolbox is excited to be partnering with Marie Marquardt for her #ReadForChange project. Hop on over to this post to learn more about the initiative. Today, she and Alan Gratz join us for a conversation about immigrants, refugees, taking action, and his middle grade novel, Refugee.     “No one puts their children in a boat unless the water […]

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Book Review: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

March 8, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India’s partition, and of one girl’s journey to find a new home in a divided country It’s 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and […]

Book Review: The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

May 4, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description Michael likes to hang out with his friends and play with the latest graphic design software. His parents drag him to rallies held by their anti-immigrant group, which rails against the tide of refugees flooding the country. And it all makes sense to Michael. Until Mina, a beautiful girl from the other side […]

Books for Trying Times: A Resource List compiled by members of KidLit Resists!

February 16, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

Today’s list of resources is brought to you by the members of KidLit Resists! We’re a Facebook group for members of the KidLit community (authors, illustrators, editors, youth librarians, booksellers, and others who create and support picture books, MG books, and YA books) who wish to organize against the current administration’s agenda and support those communities targeted […]

Love and Justice: What I’ve learned from those seeking refuge in the U.S., a guest post by author Marie Marquardt

February 8, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Today we are very honored to be talking with author Marie Marquardt about her work with Latin American immigrant families for the Social Justice in YA Lit Project. Her book, The Radius of Us, is very timely given recent events happening here in the United States. You can find out more about the #SJYALit Project […]

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