Theme: persecution

Give Me Shelter

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

The phrase “asylum seeker” is one heard in the media all the time. It stimulates fierce and controversial debate, in arguments about migration, race, and religion. The movement of people from poor or struggling countries to those where there may be opportunities for a better life is a constant in human history, but it is [...]

Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), International, Short Stories, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Cry of the Giraffe

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

One girl’s harrowing trek from exile and slavery to hope in a new land — all based on a true story.In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, with its promises of [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Ethiopia, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Puppet

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old calumny that Jews murder Christian children for their blood. A fourteen-year-old Jewish boy named Morris Scharf becomes the star witness of corrupt authorities [...]

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Hungary, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party

By auraenid | Published: December 1, 2008

Nine-year-old Ling is comfortable; her parents are both dedicated surgeons in the best hospital in Wuhan. But when Comrade Li, one of Mao’s political officers, moves into a room in their apartment, Ling begins to witness the gradual disintegration of her world. In an atmosphere of increasing mistrust, Ling fears for the safety of her [...]

Descriptors: China, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , » 2 Comments

Friedrich

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime.

Descriptors: Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment