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Refugee is a young adult literature novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2019. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: early Nazi Germany , 1980s Cuba , and modern-day Syria .
The poem explores the memory of the speaker and their experiences in a faraway city they spent time in as a child.The narrator reminisces about the place through their childhood eyes, although we see conflict between this and their adult perception of her homeland.
Boy 87 (Refugee 87) is a contemporary novel by Ele Fountain. The refugee crisis is one of the themes in this novel. It is published by Pushkin Children's Books in the UK and by Little Brown in the US (as Refugee 87). The book was written while the author was living in Ethiopia.
Books exploring the lives of refugees and the Second World War are among those longlisted for a top children’s book prize. The Yoto Carnegies celebrate both writing and illustration and are the ...
Late antique philosophical books that made heavy use of personification and were especially influential in the Middle Ages included the Psychomachia of Prudentius (early 5th century), with an elaborate plot centered around battles between the virtues and vices, [30] and The Consolation of Philosophy (c. 524) by Boethius, which takes the form of ...
Other Words for Home is a 2019 free verse children's book by Jasmine Warga. The story is about a family of Syrian refugees with Jude, a 12-year-old girl, as protagonist. [ 1 ] The book won a 2020 Newbery Honor .
It revolves around Amory de Catinat, a Huguenot guardsman of Louis XIV, and Amos Green, an American who comes to visit France.Major themes include Louis XIV's marriage to Madame de Maintenon, retirement from court of Madame de Montespan, the revoking of the Edict of Nantes (1685) and the subsequent emigration of the Huguenot de Catinats to America.
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]