Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to join thousands of other orphans on their walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety. Along the way Valentino encounters enemy soldiers and liberation rebels. But there are experiences ahead that will test his spirit in even greater ways than these.

She is shown the graves in Sicily of drowned boat people, and examines the fence that has been built across Texas and into the sea to keep migrants out of America. She has interviewed emigration officials in Australia and members of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Geneva.

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Jamal loves playing football, which isn't easy when your goalie only has one leg and you have to dodge landmines to get your ball back. When he and his family are forced to seek sanctuary in Australia, they undergo many troubles, but determine to see out an uncertain future together.

Set in the last few months of the Second World War, one of the most brutal periods in human history, this is an extraordinarily powerful and moving story of a terrified German family on the run from the advancing Russian army.

Presents the story of 12 year-old Sade and her brother Femi who flee to Britain from Nigeria. Seen through the eyes of Sade, this title explores what it means to be classified as 'illegal' and the difficulties which come with being a refugee.

Tara is an ordinary teenager. Although her country, Kurdistan, is caught up in a war, the fighting seems far away. It hasn't really touched her. Until now. The secret police are closing in. Tara and her family must flee to the mountains with only the few things they can carry. Will anywhere feel like home again?

The story of friendship between two Afghan refugee girls waiting to go to America from a camp in Pakistan.

Set during a year that begins with France's fall to the Nazis in June 1940 and ending with Germany turning its attention to Russia, this book falls into two parts. It depicts a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; and follows the inhabitants of a rural community under occupation who find themselves thrown together in unexpected ways.

This is an adventure story about the journey of a family of aid-workers, as they and their child, Tiger, flee from a country beset by drought and war. Just before they leave, Tiger finds a fish struggling for life in a drying up puddle - and its precarious grip on survival mirrors their own.

Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War

The stunning new novel from the author of INCENDIARY

A Forgotten Tale of Wartime Survival and Resistance. When Germany invaded Poland the bombers devastated Warsaw - and the city's zoo along with it. With most of the animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski - both Christians - allowed Jews to take refuge in the empty cages. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the

The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy.

The astonishing and bestselling life story of the renowned campaigner for religious tolerance and women's rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Trying to fit in at a posh new school is really hard when your loving and lovable family also happen to be criminals. Bridget is succeeding pretty well and has even made a friend, Menzies, the son of the federal Minister for National Development. Then she finds out about Menzies' penfriend, Jamal, a refugee kid from Afghanistan held in a detention centre. When daring appeals to the government and

Presents a sequel by the award-winning author. This book tells the story of Parvana, traveling alone across a war-ridden Afghanistan in an attempt to find her family. Deborah Ellis is the winner of the Governor General's Award in Canada, their equivalent to the Carnegie Medal.

Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for the home she herself once had in Africa and her heartbreaking search for her missing lover.

Daoud Hari lost a way of life in Darfur. But amidst the carnage and turmoil, he found a new calling. As a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur region of Sudan, Daoud Hari grew up racing camels, attending weddings and playing games. But in 2003, helicopter gunships swooped down on Darfur's villages and shattered that way of life for ever.

Award-winning author/illustrator Shaun Tan brings us a powerful and evocative wordless graphic novel.