Product Description: Linda Berati, an eighth grader in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, knows that her parents are Albanian and her little sister American. But what is she? And how did she get to New York?
"After (Adem's) sister is killed during a peaceful demonstration and Serbian soldiers take over his grandmother's store, the 12-year-old is enraged by his elders' passivity.
Even after her father and brothers are killed and her leg is gravely injured in a Serb attack, 11-year-old Zana, the narrator, struggles to heed her father's advice: "Don't let them fill your heart with hate.
Product Description: Since 2006, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees have fled to other countries.
Product Description: In Children of War, a companion title to Off to War: Voices of Soldiers' Children, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to tragic victims of the Iraq war — Iraqi children.
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"A forced pen-pal exchange turns into an opportunity for real communication between Illinois sixth-grader Abby Carson and Sadeed Bayat, the best English-language student in his Afghan village.
"Born with a cleft lip, Zulaikha struggles to feel worth in a society that values women by their marriage prospects…Then, by chance, Zulaikha meets Meena, a former professor, who begins to teach her to read and write just as American soldiers arrive, b
As Fadi's family is preparing to flee to the U.S., Fadi's little sister is lost.
"Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors.
"In this sequel to The Breadwinner (2001), 13-year-old Parvana buries her father, disguises herself as a boy, and sets out across war-torn Afghanistan to find the surviving members of her family.