Independent Reading Suggested Books for Refugee & The Unwanted
Additional Texts by the Author
- Allies by Alan Gratz (800L)
- Code of Honor by Alan Gratz (730L)
- Grenade by Alan Gratz (700L)
- Ground Zero by Alan Gratz (780L)
- Refugee: The Graphic Novel by Alan Gratz (290L)
Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis (770L)
- A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park (720L)
- A Year Without Home by V. T. Bidania
- Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar
- Efren Divided by Ernesto Cisneros (710L)
- I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin (770L)
- Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai (800L)
- Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh (770L)
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- Some Places More than Others by Renee Watson (750L)
- The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani (700L)
- Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle (750L)
Non-Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees by Deborah Ellis (820L)
- Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town by Warren St. John (930L)
- Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees by Mary Beth Leatherdale (950L)
- The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom by Nujeen Mustafa, Christian Lamb (800L)
- We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman (880L)
- When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson (530L)
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