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Kiss the DustKiss the Dust
by Elizabeth Laird
Mammoth
ISBN: 0749708573



A young girl's world is turned upside down when her father's involvement in the Kurdish resistance movement forces the family to flee their comfortable home in Iraq and adjust to a new life in Britain.

The Other Side of TruthThe Other Side of Truth
by Beverley Naidoo
Puffin Books
ISBN: 0141304766

 

Twelve-year-old Sade and her brother Femi have to flee Nigeria when their mother is killed and their father won't stop criticizing the military rulers. The woman paid to bring them to London as her children abandons them and they are alone in a new, often hostile, environment.

Refugee BoyRefugee Boy
by Benjamin Zephaniah
Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 0747550867

 

Read Greg Flucker's review of Refugee Boy on our Book Reviews pages.

Parvana's JourneyParvana's Journey
by Deborah Ellis
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192752855

 

As Parvana embarks on a journey alone across a war-ridden Afghanistan in an attempt to find her family, this novel tells the human story behind the headlines. It tackles the topical issues of landmines and refugee camps and is is an engrossing and deeply moving story about a child reacting courageously to difficult events.

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