Refugee
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780545880831
Category
Historical (Fiction)
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Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Subject
William Allen White Children's Book Award Nominee
Tags
Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio): Grades 6-8, California Young Reader Medal: Middle School, Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (North Dakota): Middle Readers, Golden Archer Awards (Wisconsin): Middle/Jr. High School, Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona): Tween Book, Illinois Readers' Choice Awards: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, Isinglass Teen Read Award (New Hampshire), Maine Student Book Award, Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota) - Division II: Grades 6-8 (post-1996 winners), National Jewish Book Awards: Children's and Young Adult Literature, North Carolina Children's Book Award: Junior Books, Notable Books for a Global Society: 2018, Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards: Grades 6-8, Sequoyah Book Awards (Oklahoma): Intermediate Books, Sydney Taylor Book Awards: Older Readers, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults: 2018, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: 2018, Young Hoosier Book Award: Middle Books, Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest): Junior, Asian People, Immigration and emigration, Jewish boys, Refugees, resilience, Southwest Asian (Middle Eastern) people, survival, Syrian people
Abstract
Separated by decades, Josef, a Jew living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a girl trying to escape unrest in 1994 Cuba; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence, embark on journeys in search of refuge.
Number of Copies
1
