Pick a book from our list, all available at local libraries
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Refugee boy
By: Benjamin Zephaniah
A victim of the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Alem finds himself alone in England…
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Welcome to the New World
By: Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan
Two brothers, Jamil and Ammar, fled Syria in 2012, with their wives and children…
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The Lightless Sky
By: Gulwali Passarlay
A gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening memoir of fortitude and survival—of a twelve-year-old boy’s…
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A Hundred Thousand Welcomes
Edited by: Tiffy Allen
‘A Hundred Thousand Welcomes’ is the story of City of Sanctuary from its beginnings in 2005 to 2018, told…
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Over Under Sideways Down
By: Karrie Fransman
Ebrahim is a teenage refugee. He did not choose to leave Iran, he did not choose to bid farewell to his…
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Shadow
By: Michael Morpurgo
When Shadow, a bomb-sniffing spaniel, goes missing in the middle of wartorn Afghanistan, his soldier-owner…
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The Other Side of Truth
By: Beverley Naidoo
12-year-old Sade and her brother Femi have to flee Nigeria when their mother is killed and their father criticises the military rulers…
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My name is not Refugee
By: Kate Milner
A young boy discusses the journey he is about to make with his mother. They will leave their town, she explains, and it will be sad but…
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The displaced: refugee writers on refugee lives
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
An anthology of personal essays on the refugee experience from 20 leading refugee writers, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen…
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Dreams of a refugee
By: Mostafa Salameh
Mostafa Salameh’s extraordinary journey began with his birth to Palestinian refugee parents in Kuwait in 1970. One night Mostafa dreamt…
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Oranges in no man’s land
By: Elizabeth Laird
A gripping story of a ten-year-old girl who risks death to make a lifesaving dash through war-torn Beirut..
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Refugee tales
By: David Herd
This is a unique collection of tales told by leading novelists and poets in collaboration with refugees…
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Cast away: stories of survival from Europe’s refugee crisis
By: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
An exploration of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, told through the stories of…
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City of thorns
By: Ben Rawlence
Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya…
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We are displaced
By: Malala Yousafzai
Starting with her own story of displacement as an Internally Displaced Person, Malala will introduce readers to what it means to lose your home…
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The refugees
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in…
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The bone sparrow
By: Zana Fraillon
Subhi is a refugee. Born in a detention centre, all he knows of the world is that he’s at least 19 fence…
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A story like the wind
By: Gill Lewis
In a small boat spinning out on the sea sits a group of refugees, fleeing their war-stricken homes. They have nothing – except their…
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Give me shelter
By: Tony Bradman
This collection of short stories shows us people who have been forced to leave their homes or families to seek help and shelter…
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Jackdaw summer
By: David Almond
Every summer Liam and Max roam the wild countryside, but this year things are different. One hot summer’s day a jackdaw leads…
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The journey
By: Francesca Sanna
With haunting echoes of current affairs, this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family…