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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward...
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English
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An Odyssey Honor audiobook and National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel—adapted for audio—is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl.
Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to...
Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to...
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ABRAMS
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Discover the Korean War through the eyes of the journalist who covered it in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series
In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920–1966) was made bureau chief of the Far East Asia desk for the New York Herald Tribune. Tensions were high on the Korean peninsula, where a border drawn after WWII split the country into North and South. When the North Korean army crossed...
In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920–1966) was made bureau chief of the Far East Asia desk for the New York Herald Tribune. Tensions were high on the Korean peninsula, where a border drawn after WWII split the country into North and South. When the North Korean army crossed...
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Pub. Date:
2017
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 690L
Language:
English
Description:
Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time....
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Publisher:
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date:
[2020]
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 450L
Language:
English
Description:
"On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try to restart his studies--he was determined to become a...
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Publisher:
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
2020
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 530L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--
7. Perfection
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Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in NeukoÌ̂lln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints. They have a passion for food, progressive politics, sexual experimentation, and Berlin's twenty-four-hour party scene. Their ideal existence is also that of an entire generation, lived out on Instagram, but outside the images they create for themselves,...
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Lexile measure:
1170L
Language:
English
Description:
"The hidden force of fate is symbolized by the superhuman grandeur and multitudinous imageries of the cathedral. 'The first part ... is a panorama of medieval life--religious, civic, popular, and criminal--drawn with immense learning and an amazing command of spectacular effect. These elements are then set into motion in a fantastic and grandiose drama, of which the personages are romantic sublimations of human virtues and passions--Quasimodo the...
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Publisher:
Titan Comics
Language:
English
Description:
This unique volume offers a rare glimpse at the development of the first Rivers of London graphic novel, Body Work, showcasing the script by Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel in a side-by-side comparison with the artwork by Lee Sullivan and colorist Luis Guerrero. Universally acclaimed by critics and fans alike on its release in 2016, Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London graphic novel series has gone on to spawn eight further adventures, featuring...
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Publisher:
Sourcebooks Inc
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
From New York Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels and bestselling, acclaimed graphic novel Illegal comes a compelling and timely story that follows two courageous children as they face the effects of climate change. Time is running out for Sami and Yuki. Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian Ocean. They earn their living by fishing. But the ocean is rising and each day they...
Lexile measure:
1210L
Language:
English
Description:
Set in 1757, during the American colonial wars between the English and French, this second of Cooper's five tales shows both camps united in dispossessing the native Indians and concentrates on the adventures of three men on their way to join the besieged Fort William Henry on Lake George.
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Publisher:
Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date:
©2021
Language:
English
Description:
"An account, in graphic novel format, of a young Syrian refugee and how war forced him to leave everything behind, including his family, his friends, his home, and his business. This narrative follows his travels from Syria, to Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey"--
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Series:
Knee deep volume 1
Publisher:
Oni Press
Pub. Date:
©2023
Language:
English
Description:
"In the year 2223, a teenage girl must venture through underground tunnels and canals in search of her parents who disappeared while on a mining expedition"--
"Two hundred years in the future, refugees from an environmental cataclysm have fled underground. They survive, scrounging out a living in a twisted maze of tunnels and canals. Scavengers, mistitfs, bandits, renegades and mutants are among the citizens of this subterranean realm. They are sewerfolk,...
14. Zenobia
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Publisher:
Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
A deeply moving and award-winning graphic novel about a young Syrian refugee.
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Series:
Nathan Hale's hazardous tales volume 11
Publisher:
Abrams Books
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
"In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) was made bureau chief of the Far East Asia desk for the New York Herald Tribune. Tensions were high on the Korean peninsula, where a border drawn after WWII split the country into North and South. When the North Korean army crossed the border with Soviet tanks, it was war. Marguerite was there when the Communists captured Seoul. She fled with the refugees heading south, but when the bridges were blown over...
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Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 600L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
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An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam...
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Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
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"A gripping middle grade biography of Charlotte Salomon, and an ode to how art can capture both life's everyday beauty and its monumental horrors. Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?, which consists of 769 individual works painted between 1940 and 1942 while she was in hiding from the Nazis in the south of France, and which has been called a...
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English
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Cupiditas: Evil's Root is a sequel to Michael Segedy's thriller/romance, In Deep. In this suspenseful story, a beautiful, young ex-CIA agent reunites with Steve Collins to solve the mystery to the murders of a U.S. senator, a Peruvian politician, and Peruvian journalist. Like In Deep, the mystery is full of twists and turns, full of romance and adventure, with dark underpinnings that show how powerful, ruthless, and narrowly focused political and...
19. In Deep
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English
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When Steve Collins, a disillusioned ex-pat journalist, sets off to cover a plane crash in the middle of the Amazon Jungle, he has no idea how his life is about to change. Under pressure from his editor, Steve agrees to let Jennifer Strand, a young, U.S. Embassy embedded journalist tag along. Gorgeous and full of spunk, she accompanies him on an adventure where he discovers a shocking truth about American foreign policy, and about blindly following...
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Publisher:
Scout Comics
Language:
English
Description:
Iraq, 2014. Life couldn't be better for 16 year-old Yasmeen as her family is able to buy a big new house. Then ISIS invades Mosul. Yasmeen's Shia family barely escapes, while Yasmeen us captured by terrorists and sees her uncle executed. Yasmeen is sold to an ISIS fighter as a slave and must relinquish her innocence in order to save her three new Yazidi friends who are punished with starvation. Two years later, Yasmeen is reunited with her family...