Georgette Michalenko's Library
Minglewood Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780140557008 | Gasp! | Terry Denton | CLEVER AND WITTY, THIS HILARIOUS STORY IS ABOUT A NAUGHTY GREEDY LITTLE FISH WHO NEARLY GETS WHAT HE DESERVES. FROM THE IRRESISTIBLE TERRY DENTON. | Penguin Global |
| 9780590423045 | I Hate English! (A Blue Ribbon Book) | Ellen Levine | Scholastic Paperbacks | |
| 9780061962790 | Inside Out and Back Again | Thanhha Lai | No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama. For all the ten years of her life, HÀ has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by . . . and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. HÀ and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, HÀ discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape . . . and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next. | HarperCollins |
| 9780593120064 | What Is A Refugee? | Elise Gravel | An accessible picture book that oh-so-simply and graphically introduces the term "refugee" to curious young children to help them better understand the world in which they live.Who are refugees? Why are they called that word? Why do they need to leave their country? Why are they sometimes not welcome in their new country? In this relevant picture book for the youngest children, author-illustrator Elise Gravel explores what it means to be a refugee in bold, graphic illustrations and spare text. This is the perfect tool to introduce an important and timely topic to children. | Schwartz & Wade |
| 9780525553908 | When Stars Are Scattered | Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed | A National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl. Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day. Heartbreak, hope, and gentle humor exist together in this graphic novel about a childhood spent waiting, and a young man who is able to create a sense of family and home in the most difficult of settings. It's an intimate, important, unforgettable look at the day-to-day life of a refugee, as told to New York Times Bestselling author/artist Victoria Jamieson by Omar Mohamed, the Somali man who lived the story. | Penguin |
| 9780750299862 | Who are Refugees and Migrants? What makes people leave their homes? and Other Big Questions | Michael Rosen and Annemarie Young | Every day in the news we see and hear people described as refugees, asylum seekers and migrants leaving their homes and taking difficult, sometimes life-threatening journeys to new countries. What has made them leave and what should the countries that receive them do about the situation? What links us all as human beings, and what happens when people are denied their human rights? In this book, we'll help you understand migration, the movement of people, in all its forms. Our aim is to get you to think for yourselves about the big questions raised by the subject, and then use your answers to make your own list of human rights that you think all people should share. We'll hear a range of views from people who have personal experience of migration, including the campaigners Melterm Avcil and Muzoon Almellehan, the comedian and actor Omid Djalili and the poet Benjamin Zephaniah. | Wayland |
| 9781338895070 | You Are A Star, Malala Yousafzai | Dean Robbins | Make way for Malala Yousafzai!It's Malala Yousafzai like you've never seen her before!Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an activist and trailblazer. The third book in the exciting You Are a Star nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Malala Yousafzai focuses on Malala's lifelong mission to bring educational equality and justice to all ― especially young girls.Maithili Joshi's spot-on comic illustrations bring this icon to life, and back matter instructs readers on how to be more like Malala! | Scholastic Press |
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