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1) Refugee
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2022 Battle of the Books - Intermediate List (Grades 7-8)
Battle of the Books: Intermediate 2024
Grade 6 Summer Reading List 2022
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Battle of the Books: Intermediate 2024
Grade 6 Summer Reading List 2022
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
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Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
3) Stolen girl
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When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but she is troubled by her memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she remembers living with a German Nazi family who called her by another name. As she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by the question: who is she, and where...
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