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Alone : the journeys of three young refugees / by Tom, Paul.; Aaronson, Arielle.; Baillairgé, Mélanie,1974-; adaptation of (work):Tom, Paul.Seuls (Documentary film);
"Each year, more than 400 minors arrive alone in Canada requesting refugee status. They arrive without their parents, accompanied by no adult at all. Alone relates the journey of three of them: Afshin, Alain and Patricia. Their story opens a window onto the many heartbreaks, difficult sacrifices and countless hardships that punctuate their obstacle-filled path. But Alone most especially tells of the courage and resilience that these young people demonstrated before being able to finally obtain a life where threats and danger are no longer a part of their everyday existence."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Refugee children; Unaccompanied refugee children; Refugee children; Unaccompanied refugee children;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Stormy seas : stories of young boat refugees / by Leatherdale, Mary Beth.; Shakespeare, Eleanor.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.Presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; José tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba flees Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life.LSC
Subjects: Refugees; Refugee children; Refugees; Refugee children;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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No refuge for women : the tragic fate of Syrian refugees / by Welser, Maria von.; McIntosh, Jamie.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Journalist Maria von Welser reveals the stories of some of the Syrian women and children who make up over half of the population of refugee camps.LSC
Subjects: Women refugees; Refugee children; Refugees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Counting kindness : ten ways to welcome refugee children / by Kurman, Hollis.; Barroux.;
Follow the journey of immigrant and refugee children from a leaky boat to a new country, a new school, and new friends in this simple counting book.LSC
Subjects: Immigrant children; Refugee children; Kindness; Counting books.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Exile music / by Steil, Jennifer,author.;
"An atmospheric and meditative novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live within the city limits. Only vaguely aware of Hitler's rise or how definitive her Jewish heritage will become to her family's identity, Orly spends her days immersed in play with her best friend and upstairs neighbor, Analiese. Together they dream up vivid and elaborate worlds, where all of the things they love about their own lives can exist forever. But in 1938, Orly's peaceful life is shattered. Her older brother flees Vienna first, and soon Orly, her father, and her mother procure refugee visas for La Paz, a city high up in the Bolivian Andes. La Paz couldn't be more different from Vienna--the altitude alone sabotages her mother's efforts to bake the pastries they loved back home. Even as the number of Jewish refugees in the small town grows, her family is haunted by the music that can no longer be their livelihood, by the missing brother who was once the heart of their family, and Orly yearns for the solace of her friendship with Analiese. Yet they find a daily rhythm in this strange, new land. Years pass, the war ends, and suddenly the threat they fled looms again. Just as Bolivia took in Jewish refugees, the country now accepts a small number of Nazi refugees. Orly reckons with a darkness that not even victory at war can extinguish, and she must decide: Is the security and joy of her day to day life in La Paz what defines home, or is the pull of her past in Europe too strong to ignore? In lyrical and atmospheric prose, Exile Music illuminates one girl's coming of age in a family separated and defined by war, whose hope takes root on an unfamiliar shore"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; World War, 1939-1945; Refugees; Refugees; Refugee children;
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The Song of Names [videorecording] / by Girard, François,1963-film director.; Bremmer, Richard,actor.; Hauer-King, Jonah,1995-; Izzard, Eddie,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Lebrecht, Norman,1948-Song of Names.; McCormack, Catherine,1972-actor.; Owen, Clive,actor.; Roth, Tim,actor.; Rubinek, Saul,1948-actor.; Sloan, Amy,actor.; Wadham, Julian,1958-actor.; Elevation Pictures,publisher.;
Jonah Hauer-King, Clive Owen, Tim Roth, Catherine Mccormack, Eddie Izzard, Saul Rubinek, Richard Bremmer, Amy Sloan, Julian Wadham.As World War II dawned, young Britisher Martin Simmonds saw his impresario father take in Polish refugee/violin prodigy Dovidl Rapaport--and they became as close as brothers. On the eve of his professional debut, Dovidl left without a word. In middle age, Martin pursued slim clues in order to discover where his friend vanished to ... and the reasons why.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Friendship in children; Gifted children; Refugee children; Violinists; Child musicians; Missing persons;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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How dare the sun rise : memoirs of a war child / by Uwiringiyimana, Sandra.; Pesta, Abigail.;
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Subjects: Uwiringiyimana, Sandra.; Refugees; Refugees; Refugee children; Refugee children;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The banana-leaf ball : how play can change the world / by Milway, Katie Smith,1960-; Evans, Shane.;
Includes Internet addresses.Young Deo finds himself alone in a refugee camp in Tanzania, and becomes a target of a bully. He finds comfort in making a banana-leaf ball, and when a coach arrives to organize a soccer game, things begin to change for the better as the children overcome their differences while on the playing field. Includes information about the person who inspired this story, and well as about organizations that use play to build compassion and confidence in children.LSC
Subjects: Soccer stories.; Refugee children; Refugee camps; Bullying; Play;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A refugee's journey from Syria / by Mason, Helen,1950-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index."Five-year-old Roj's home is bombed during the civil war that has been raging in his homeland of Syria. He and his family are forced to flee the country secretly by boat, and they end up in a camp for refugees in Europe. Interspersed with facts about Syria and its people, this narrative tells a story common to many refugees fleeing the country. The book looks at the efforts being made around the world to assist the millions of refugees. Readers are encouraged to consider how they can help refugees in their communities and around the world"--Provided by publisher.Guided reading: RLSC
Subjects: Refugees; Refugees; Refugee children; Refugee children; Refugees; Boat people; Boat people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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What strange paradise / by El Akkad, Omar,1982-author.;
"More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vänna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though she and the boy are complete strangers, though they don't speak a common language, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of the boy's life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair--and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one"--
Subjects: Political fiction.; Social problem fiction.; Boat people; Friendship in youth; Islands; Refugee children; Refugees; Syrians;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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