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Refugee Boy is a teen novel written by Benjamin Zephaniah. It is a book about Alem Kelo, a 14-year-old refugee from Ethiopia and Eritrea. It was first published by Bloomsbury on 28 August 2001. The novel was the recipient of the 2002 Portsmouth Book Award in the Longer Novel category. [1] [2]
Alan Kurdi (born Alan Shenu), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, [2] [3] was a two-year-old Syrian boy (initially reported as having been three years old) of Kurdish ethnic background [4] whose image made global headlines after he drowned on 2 September 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea along with his mother and brother.
Kirkus Reviews called Boy 87 "A suspenseful debut novel about the forces of greed and love that shape a refugee's fate.", [2] and a BookTrust review described it as ".. a timely and important book which illuminates the realities of life as a refugee." [3] Boy 87 has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly, [4] The Bulletin of the Center for ...
Zephaniah's second novel Refugee Boy, about a 14-year-old refugee from Ethiopia and Eritrea, [34] was published in August 2001. It was the recipient of the 2002 Portsmouth Book Award in the Longer Novel category, [27] [35] and went on to sell 88,000 copies. [23]
Elián González was born December 6, 1993, to divorced parents. [1] Although his parents divorced in 1991 after six years of marriage, the couple would separate for good in 1996, but both remained close with their son.
A sixteen-year-old youth was shown on video assaulting a fifteen-year-old Syrian refugee boy in a playground attack in Almondbury, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The attack took place at Almondbury Community School on 25 October 2018; the headmaster condemned the attack once it had received nationwide media attention.
2016: God's Refugee: The Story of a Lost Boy Pastor, a memoir by John Daau and Lilly Sanders Ubbens; 2014: The Good Lie, a film about four Lost Boys who resettle in America. 2014: Out of the Impossible: The Hope of the Lost Boy, an interpretive book by Paul Kur, who became a lost boy at age 5 and eventually came to the U.S.
Wolfgang Samuel at the Army Navy Country Club in 2009. As of 2015, Samuel has published eight books. The first, German Boy: A Child in War, is a memoir detailing the war years and his post-war life as a refugee, and features a foreword by historian Stephen Ambrose.