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Title: My Beautiful Birds Author: Suzanne Del Rizzo Illustrator: Suzanne Del Rizzo Publisher: Pajama Press Publication Date: March 8 2017 ISBN: 978-1772780109 Audience: 6-10 years Summary:  Sami, about six or seven years old, tells this story.   His is one of the families that

Title: Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey Author: Margaret Ruurs. Translator: Falah Raheem Illustrator: Nizar Ali Badr Publisher: Orca Book Publishers Publication Date: October 18, 2016 ISBN: 978-1459814905 Audience: 5 years and up Summary: Rama heard the rooster crow

Name of Book:  The Journey Author:  Francesca Sanna Illustrator: Francesca Sanna Publisher: Flying Eye Books ISBN: 978-1-909263-99-4 Audience:  Ages 5-8 Summary: This beautifully illustrated book came out of the true stories of refugee families looking for a new home when their

Title: I’m New Here Author: Anne Sibley O’Brien Illustrator: Anne Sibley O’Brien Publisher:  Charlesbridge ISBN:  9781580896122 Audience:  K-Gr. 2 Summary:  Three children from other cultures struggle and succeed in adapting to their new elementary school in America. Literary

The earliest stories of our faith describe a wandering people.  And the Israelites are told to remember the experience of having to leave their homes and use it to inform their lives after they are settled again.  “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were

Title:  Inside Out and Back Again Author: Thanhha Lai Publisher:  HarperCollins, 2011 ISBN:  9780061962783 Audience:  Ages 8 and up Summary: Ten-year-old Ha, her mother and three older brothers flee Saigon as it is falling to the Communists in 1975.  Ha leaves behind her papaya

Name of Book: Four Feet, Two Sandals Author: Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed Illustrator: Doug Chayka Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers ISBN: 978-0-8028-5296-0 Audience: 4 – 8 years old Summary: Two girls meet in a refugee camp in Pakistan along the