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The next new Syrian girl / by Shukairy, Ream,author.;
Ages 12+.The unlikely friendship between Syrian American boxer Khadija and Syrian refugee Leene reveals the pressures and expectations of the perfect Syrian daughter and the repercussions of the Syrian Revolution both at home and abroad.Khadija Shami is a Syrian American high school senior raised on boxing and football. Saddled with a monstrous ego and a fierce mother to test it, she dreams of escaping her sheltered life to travel the world with her best friend. Leene Tahir is a Syrian refugee, doing her best to adjust to the wildly unfamiliar society of a suburban Detroit high school while battling panic attacks and family pressures. When their worlds collide the result is catastrophic. To Khadija, Leene embodies the tame, dutiful Syrian ideal she's long rebelled against. And to Leene, Khadija is the strong-willed, closed-off American who makes her doubt her place in the world. But as Khadija digs up Leene's past, a startling and life-changing discovery forces the two of them closer together. As the girls secretly race to unravel the truth, a friendship slowly and hesitantly begins blooming. Doubts are cast aside as they realize they have more in common than they each expected. What they find takes them on a journey all the way to Jordan, challenging what each knows about the other and herself.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Romance fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Syrian Americans; Teenage immigrants; Friendship; Expectation (Psychology); Refugees; Female friendship; Muslims; Syrian Americans; Teenage immigrants; Friendship; Expectation; Refugees; Female friendship; Muslims; JUVENILE FICTION / General.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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My country : a Syrian memoir / by Eid, Kassem,author.(GaAaGPL)1228889;
Kassem Eid survived arrest in al-Assad's regime, a chemical weapons attack that shocked the world, and the siege of a city where he fought with the Syrian rebel army. This is his story--a unique and powerfully moving testimony for our times, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni. On August 21, 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500 people were killed. Later that day, he was hit by a mortar while helping the Free Syrian Army fight government forces. He survived that, too. But his entire world--friends, neighbors, family, everything he knew--had been devastated beyond repair. Eid recalls moving to Moadamiya in 1989, at the age of three. The streets where he and his eleven siblings played were fragrant with jasmine. But he soon realized that he was treated differently at school because of his family's Palestinian immigrant origins, and their resistance to the brutal regime. When Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father in 2000, hopes that he would ease the state's severity were swiftly crushed. The unprecedented scope of this brave, deeply felt memoir makes it unique in the body of literature to emerge from the Syrian civil war. Eid illuminates the realities of growing up in a corrupt dictatorship; the strictures of living under siege; the impact of unspeakable violence; and how, at extraordinary personal risk, he drew worldwide attention to the assault on cities across Syria. This is a searing account of oppression, war, grit, and escape, and a heartbreaking love letter to a world lost forever.A lesson will learned -- Lost innocence -- No going back -- Last meetings -- Chemical Day -- Damn humanity -- Walled in -- Hunger diaries -- A dying town -- Finding safety in strangers -- Hope extinguished -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Autobiographies.; Biography.; History.; Eid, Kassem.; Civil War (Syria : 2011-); Palestinian Arabs; Atrocities.; Palestinian Arabs.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.; HISTORY / Middle East.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The boy at the back of the class / by Raúf, Onjali Q.,author.(GaAaGPL)1242219; Curnick, Pippa,illustrator.(GaAaGPL)872231;
When quiet, nine-year-old Ahmet arrives in their classroom, a boy and his friends fail to draw him out but try a new plan after learning he is a Syrian refugee.
Subjects: Juvenile literature.; Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.; Juvenile works.; Novels.; Novels.; Refugees; Schools; Friendship; Syrians; Refugees; Schools; Friendship; Syrians; JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship.; JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration.; JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education.; Friendship.; Refugees.; Schools.; Syrians.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Nowhere boy / by Marsh, Katherine.(GaAaGPL)632991;
"Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime"--
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers; Refugees; Orphans; Syrians;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Christmas on the island : a novel / by Colgan, Jenny,author.(GaAaGPL)2068;
While Flora struggles with how to inform her ex-boss that she is carrying his baby, a doctor refugee from war-torn Syria embarks on his first Christmas season without his wife on the remote Scottish island of Mure.
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Fiction.; Christmas fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Refugees; Pregnant women; Syrians; Islands; Christmas; FICTION; FICTION; FICTION; Islands.; Man-woman relationships.; Pregnant women.; Refugees.; Syrians.; FICTION / Women.; FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy.; FICTION / Family Life / General.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Flying over water / by Hitchcock, Shannon,author.(GaAaGPL)739391; Senzai, N. H.,author.(GaAaGPL)647638;
008-012.4-6.Twelve-year-old Noura and her family, fleeing war in Syria, have been granted asylum in the United States, but they arrive in Florida to the chaos of the president's Muslim ban; twelve-year-old Jordyn is a member of the Christian church that is sponsoring the Alwan family, and Noura's student ambassador in middle school; their inevitable culture clash is made far worse by the wave of hate crimes unleashed by the Muslim ban, and personal problems of both girls--Noura's fear of water (Jordyn is a champion swimmer) and Jordyn's worry over her mother's recent miscarriage.
Subjects: Fiction.; Juvenile works.; Fiction.; Refugee children; Immigrant children; Syrians; Emigration and immigration; Hate crimes; Mothers and daughters; Friendship; Refugees; Syrians; Emigration and immigration; Hate crimes; Mothers and daughters; Friendship; JUVENILE FICTION / General.; Emigration and immigration; Friendship.; Hate crimes.; Immigrant children.; Mothers and daughters.; Refugee children.; Syrians.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Other words for home / by Warga, Jasmine,author.(GaAaGPL)842538; Balzer + Bray,publisher.(GaAaGPL)828871;
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.""I am learning how to be / sad / and happy / at the same time." Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies Jude has always loved haven't quite prepared her for starting school in the US - and her new label of "Middle Eastern," an identity she's never known before. But this life also brings unexpected surprises - there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude just might try out for. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most important, finding yourself."--JacketAges 8-12.Sentence length: 5 (very hard)Accelerated Reader ARReading CountsLexileF&PWalter Dean Myers Honor Book Young Readers Category, 2020Newbery Honor Book, 2020
Subjects: Children's stories.; Novels in verse.; Fictional Work; Newberry Medal: Honor book; Novels in verse.; Poetry.; Novels in verse.; Juvenile works.; Fiction.; Novels in verse.; Fiction.; Dust jackets (Binding); Romans en vers.; Romans.; Refugee children; Refugee children; Emigration and immigration; Emigration and immigration; Syrians; Syrians; Emigration and immigration; Syrians; Novels in verse.; Emigration and Immigration; Enfants réfugiés; Enfants réfugiés; Émigration et immigration; Émigration et immigration; JUVENILE FICTION; JUVENILE FICTION; JUVENILE FICTION; Refugee children; Emigration and immigration; Syrians; Novels in verse.; Refugees; Immigration and emigration; Children's stories.; Syrians.; Refugee children.; Emigration and immigration.; Refugees; Immigration and emigration; Refugees; Immigration and emigration;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The Arabian nights / by Haddawy, Husain.(PINES)214862; Mushin, Mahdi.;
© 1992., Knopf : Distributed by Random House,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Agent in place / by Greaney, Mark,author.(GaAaGPL)714398;
"The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels Court Gentry is back in action. This time he's working on behalf of a well-connected group of Syrian expats to secure the Syrian president's mistress so they can use her to bring down the president's regime. But the expats' plan goes awry when it's discovered the mistress has a baby--the Syrian president's only male heir--hidden away in a Damascus safe house. Court goes after the baby, a decision that comes at the price of the mistress's life. The expat organization deems the boy now useless to their cause and refuses to protect him against the Syrian first lady and the notorious Swiss assassin in her employ. With no support on the way, Court realizes he'll have to take down the Syrian president himself if he and the boy are going to make it out alive."--
Subjects: Fiction.; Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Spy stories.; Suspense fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Spy stories.; Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Assassins; Assassins; FICTION; FICTION; Assassins.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Soldier bear / by Dumon Tak, Bibi.(GaAaGPL)665638; Hopman, Philip,ill.(GaAaGPL)262381;
An orphaned Syrian brown bear cub is adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II and serves for five years as their mischievous mascot in Iran and Italy. Based on a true story.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Brown bear; Bears; Soldiers; Mascots;
© c2011., Eerdmans Books for Young Readers,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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