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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they are--not a war, but a revolution.
5) Wild poppies
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Since the passing of his father, Oscar has tried to be the man of his family of Syrian refugees. As Oscar waits in line for rations, his younger brother Sufyan explores more nontraditional methods to provide for his family. Ignoring his brother's warnings, Sufyan gets more and more involved with a group that provides him with big rewards for doing seemingly inconsequential tasks. When the group abruptly gets more intense--taking Sufyan and other boys...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Nadia is separated from her family while fleeing the civil war, she spends the next four days with a mysterious old man who helps her navigate the checkpoints and snipers of the rebel, ISIS, and Syrian armies that are littering Aleppo on her way to meeting her father at the Turkish border.
9) Zenobia
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
93 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Syrian war reaches Amina's village she is forced to escape, and during her perilous journey she thinks of the brave warrior Zenobia to remind her to stay strong.
10) My name is Bana
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
96 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers - all to find safety in the West."--
13) The freezies
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
140 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Syrian refugee arrives in a small village in western England. Three 12 year-olds from the village strike up a friendship and work to help him get refugee status."--
14) Sea prayer
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
15) White needle
Author
Series
Shadow Squadron volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
112 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ryan Cross and the Shadow Squadron have been assigned to recover a chemical weapon that has been stolen by an extremist wing of the Syrian rebels before it can be launched against an unknown target.
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