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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 .
Alan Michael Gratz (born January 27, 1972) is the author of 19 novels for young adults including Prisoner B-3087, Code of Honor, Grenade, Something Rotten, Ground Zero and Refugee. Life [ edit ]
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]
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.
Yousafzai met several of the girls whose stories are included in We Are Displaced in these refugee camps. [18] Speaking about the book, Yousafzai said that "what tends to get lost in the current refugee crisis is the humanity behind the statistics". [13] [20] She further commented that "people become refugees when they have no other option ...
The Refugees is a 2017 short story collection by Viet Thanh Nguyen. [4] It is Nguyen's first published short story collection and his first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer. The eight-story collection, set in different locations in California and Vietnam, earned favorable reviews from critics, particularly for offering ...
Jenny Sawyer writing in The Christian Science Monitor credit's Fleming's ability to tell the personal story and frame it in the wider refugee crisis, but also notes the lack of Al Zamel's own voice, the story only ever being told by the third party narrator. [4] Hannah Solel writing in the Financial Times called the book gripping and moving. [1]
Welfare groups/Red Cross: Throughout the novel, different welfare organizations, including the red cross, are mentioned. These provide humanitarian aid to refugees. United States: The only reference to the United States in the conflict is a mention of a detachment of Marines sent as an advisory force to the nationalist side.