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A stunning first novel, set during the violent 1947 partition of India, about uprooted children and their journeys to safety.
As India is rent into two nations, communal violence breaks out on both sides of the new border and streaming hordes of refugees flee from blood and chaos.
At an overrun train station, Shankar and Keshav, twin Hindu boys, lose sight of their mother and join the human mass to go in search of her. A young Sikh girl, Simran...
2) Deep harbor
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Northern lights (Lisa Tawn Bergren) volume 2
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
3) Refugee
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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy livng in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
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Heirs of Ireland novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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When famine strikes her family farm, Clare Hanley decides to leave Ireland for America, despite the fact that her older sister Margaret had similarly emigrated and had never been heard from again.
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American girls collection volume 2
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English
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After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
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American girls collection volume 1
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English
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Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family experience many hardships as they travel from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854.
11) Little Bee
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British couple Andrew and Sarah O'Rourke, vacationing on a Nigerian beach in a last-ditch effort to save their faltering marriage, come across Little Bee and her sister, Nigerian refugees fleeing from machete-wielding soldiers intent on clearing the beach. The horrific confrontation that follows changes the lives of everyone involved in unimaginable ways.
Two years later, Little Bee appears in London on the day of Andrew's funeral and reconnects
...12) Goodbye, Vietnam
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[1992]
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.
14) Molly's Pilgrim
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Told to make a doll like a Pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's Jewish mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom--much to Molly's embarrassment.
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Malaika stories volume 1
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English
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A heartwarming story about family, community and the celebration of Carnival.
16) West of the moon
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English
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In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.
18) Katie's wish
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[2002]
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English
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Soon after Katie wishes for her potatoes to disappear during supper, a potato famine ravages her native Ireland, forcing her to leave for America.
19) The emigrants
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Emigrants novel volume 1
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English
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Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled...
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