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War and Genocide: Children's Material
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Title: Along the Tracks
Author: Bergman, Tamar
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (1991)
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 0395553288
Call Number: J940.5315 B454A
Format:
245 p pgs.
Notes: During the Nazi invasion of Poland, Yankele—a young Jewish boy—is driven away from his home and forced the flee to the Soviet Union, where he lives as an orphan and creates a new life for himself.

 
 
Title: Little Cricket
Author: Brown, Jackie
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children (2004)
Price: $15.99
ISBN: 0786818522
Call Number: J
Format:
252 p pgs.
Notes: After the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, 12-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand, eventually settling in the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

 
 
Title: Kindertransport
Author: Drucker, Olga Levy
Publisher: H. Holt (1992)
ISBN: 0805017119
Call Number: J940.5316 D84K
Format: Hardback
146 p pgs.
Notes: This personal narrative recounts the author’s experiences as a young woman in Nazi Germany, where she fled the country as part of the Kindertransport, which relocated 10,000 Jewish children to safety in England.

 
 
Title: Lily’s Crossing
Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly
Publisher: Delacorte Press (1997)
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 0385321422
Call Number: J
Format:
180 p pgs.
Notes: During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily’s friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.

 
 
Title: The Storyteller’s Beads
Author: Kurtz, Jane
Publisher: Harcourt Brace (1998)
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 0152010742
Call Number: J
Format: Hardback
154 p pgs.
Notes: During the political strife and famine of the 1980s, two Ethiopian girls—one Christian, the other Jewish and blind—struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make a dangerous journey out of Ethiopia.

 
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Title: Drita, My Homegirl
Author: Lombard, Jenny
Publisher: Putnam (2006)
Price: $15.99
ISBN: 0399243801
Call Number: j
Format: Hardback
Notes: When 10-year-old Drita and her family—refugees from Kosovo—move to New York City, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxie is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond.

 
 
Title: Good Night, Maman
Author: Mazer, Norma Fox
Publisher: Harcourt Brace (1999)
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 0152014683
Call Number: J
Format:
185 p pgs.
Notes: After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.