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A book that centers a refugee experience - Extreme Reader 2022

Reading suggestions for anyone to enjoy that also work for the Extreme Reader 2022 challenge! Booklist is divided into sections for Adult Non-Fiction, Teen, followed by Adult Fiction. Additional category information: • Refugees are people who have been forced to flee their home because of war, persecution, or violence due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social or ethnic group

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  • Call Me American

    the Extraordinary True Story of a Young Somali Immigrant ; Young Adult Edition

    Iftin, Abdi Nor,
    Non-fiction
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Delacorte Press, [2020] — Y 305.89354 IF7CA 2018
  • The Children of Willesden Lane

    Beyond the Kindertransport : a Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival

    Golabek, Mona
    Non-fiction
    Book, 2002New York, N.Y. : Warner Books, [2002] — 942 G562C
  • Enrique's Journey

    the True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite With His Mother

    Nazario, Sonia
    Non-fiction
    Book, 2013New York : Delacorte Press, 2013. — Y 305.23089 N236E 2013
  • First They Killed My Father

    a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

    Ung, Loung,
    Non-fiction
    Book, 2006New York : Harper Perennial, 2006. — 959.6042 UN311F 2000
  • The Girl Who Smiled Beads

    a Story of War and What Comes After

    Wamariya, Clemantine,
    Non-fiction
    Book, 2018New York : Crown Publishing, [2018] — 967.571043 W18G 2018
  • Last Boat Out of Shanghai

    the Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

    Zia, Helen,
    Non-fiction
    Book, 2019New York : Ballantine Books, [2019] — 951.042 Z619L 2019
  • Led by Faith

    Rising From the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide

    Ilibagiza, Immaculée
    Non-fiction
    Book, 2008Carlsbad, Calif. : Hay House, 2008. — 279.2092 ILIBAGIZA 2008
  • Love Thy Neighbor

    a Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America

    Virji, Ayaz,
    Non-fiction
    Book, 2019New York, New York : Convergent, [2019] — 280.092 VIRJI 2019
  • Non-fiction
    Book, 2018New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. — 338.766363 AL49E 2018
  • Sons and Soldiers

    the Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned With the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler

    Henderson, Bruce, 1946-
    Non-fiction
    Book, 2017New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — 940.541273 H3832S 2017
  • The Ungrateful Refugee

    What Immigrants Never Tell You

    Nayeri, Dina,
    Non-fiction
    Book, 2019New York : Catapult, [2019] — 362.87 N231U 2019
  • The Displaced

    Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

    Non-fiction
    Book, 2018New York : Abrams Press, 2018. — 305.906914 D6325D 2018
  • Teen Fiction
    Book, 2011New York : Philomel Books, 2011. — YF SEPET-R
  • Teen Fiction
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — YF LAI-T
  • Juvenile Fiction
    Book, 2010Boston : Clarion Books, 2010. — JF PARK-L
  • Juvenile Fiction
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018] — JF HIRAN-V
  • Teen Fiction
    Book, 2016New York : Philomel Books, [2016] — YF SEPET-R
  • The Unwanted

    Stories of the Syrian Refugees

    Brown, Don, 1949-
    Teen Graphic Novel
    Book, 2018Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] — YG 956.910423 B8128U 2018