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War and Genocide: Teen Selections
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Title: Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport
Author: Fox, Anne L.
Publisher: Behrman House (1999)
ISBN: 0874416485
Call Number: 940.5318 F832T
Format: Hardback
128 p pgs.
Notes: This book tells the true stories of children who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission led by concerned British citizens to save Jewish children from the Holocaust.

 
 
Title: The Return
Author: Levitin, Sonia
Publisher: : Atheneum (1987)
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 0689313098
Call Number: J
Format:
213 p pgs.
Notes: Part of a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews, 15-year-old Desta and her siblings leave their aunt and uncle and set out on a long and dangerous trip to freedom—an airlift from Sudan to Israel. They travel barefoot, facing hunger, thirst, and bandits.

 
 
Title: The Other Side of Truth
Author: Naidoo, Beverly
Publisher: HarperCollins (2000)
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 0060296283
Call Number: FICTION
Format:
252 p pgs.
Notes: After their mother’s murder, Sade and her brother are smuggled out of Nigeria and sent to foster homes in London. Their father escapes to join them, but he will be sent back to Nigeria unless Sade can tell the world what happened to her family.

 
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Title: Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl’s Story
Author: Shea, Pegi Deitz
Publisher: Clarion Books (2003)
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 0618247483
Call Number: Teen Fiction
Format: Paperback
236 p pgs.
Notes: For the Hmong people living in overcrowded refugee camps in Thailand, America is a dream. In 1995, ten years after their arrival at the camp, 13-year-old Mai Yang and her grandmother are about to experience that dream.

 
 
Title: Young Warriors: Stories of Strength
Author: Sherman, Josepha
Publisher: Random House, (2005)
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 0375829628
Call Number: FICTION
Format: Hardback
312 p pgs.
Notes: What makes a warrior? This gutsy collection of 15 original short stories compiled by bestselling author Tamora Pierce, with Josepha Sherman, tackles this question with thought and heart.