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41) Blood alley
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American merchant marine captain ferries a group of Chinese refugees down the Yangtze River to escape the Communists.
42) Refugees
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"The stunning story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit. Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight--just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around--nineteen-year-old Doaa Al Zamel floats with a small inflatable water ring around her waist and clutches two children, barely toddlers, to her body. The children had been thrust into Doaa's arms by their drowning relatives, all refugees who...
46) I am David
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
After escaping from an Eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark.
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"English teacher Victorya Rouse has assembled a collection of real-world experiences of teen refugees from around the world. Learn where these young people came from, why they left, and how they arrived in the United States. Read about their struggles to adapt to a new language, culture, and high school experiences, along with updates about how they are doing now and what they hope their futures will look like." -- Amazon.com.
"What is a refugee?...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and its 1967 Protocol, and many other important international instruments recognize the unique role the UNHCR plays in protecting refugees and supervising international refugee law. This in-depth analysis of the UNHCR's supervisory role in the international refugee protection regime examines the part played by key institutions, organizations and actors in the supervision of international refugee...
58) The survivors
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions of Holocaust survivors when they were liberated as well as their struggle as they attempt to rebuild their lives.
