Refugees & Displaced People: Books for Young Readers

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My Two Blankets

The Boy At the Back of the Class

The Modern Witch's Spells

Boy Overboard

The Little Refugee

The Inspiring True Story of Australia's Happiest Refugee

The Happiest Refugee

My Journey from Tragedy to Comedy

Girl Underground

Between Us

Winner of Book of the Year for Older Readers Award at the 2019 CBCA Awards

My Two Blankets

English and Dari edition

When Stars are Scattered

An 'outstanding and hopeful' graphic novel depicting a child's life in a refugee camp.

The Silver Sword

Out

Room On Our Rock

Winner of the 2019 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award

All Are Welcome

Ziba Came on a Boat

The Bone Sparrow

Parvana's Journey

Refuge

Many Dreams, One Land

Salt to the Sea

Winner of the 2017 Carnegie Medal

We Are Displaced

My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai

Songs Of A War Boy

The bestselling biography of Deng Adut - a child soldier, refugee and man of hope

Songbird

Living on Hope Street

Winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult fiction

Songs of a War Boy

The Bestselling Biography Of Deng Adut - A Child Soldier, Refugee And Man Of Hope

Illegal

The Arrival

Suri's Wall

Home and Away

Lothian Australian Favourites

When Michael Met Mina

People's Choice Winner - Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017

Refugee

Mahtab's Story

The Island

The Mediterranean

Honour Book in the Picture Book of the Year at the 2019 CBCA Awards

Cloudwish

Winner of CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers

The Eleventh Trade

Inside Out and Back Again

A Newbery Honor Award Winner

No Ballet Shoes in Syria

The Freedom Swimmer

A story of friendship, bravery and a desperate bid to liberty

The Night Diary

My Name Is Not Refugee

Barrington Stoke Picture Books

Salih

CBCA's Notable Children's Picture Book 2022

We are Here

My family's courageous journey to survive

Child I

Aussie STEM Stars: Munjed Al Muderis

From refugee to surgical inventor

Jumping to Heaven

Stories about refugee children

Migrants

Who are Refugees and Migrants? What Makes People Leave their Homes?

And Other Big Questions

The Paper Boat

A Refugee Story

A Great Escape

Migrations

Open Hearts, Open Borders

A Home for Luna

Between Two Skies

The Voyage

Hasina : Through My Eyes

THROUGH MY EYES

Refugee Boy

A Different Pond

Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. Children's and Young Adult. Winner (Awards)

Let Me Tell You My Story

Refugee Stories of Hope, Courage, and Humanity

Touch the Sun

The Freedom Finders

Boy 87

City of Thorns

Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

Stormy Seas

Stories of Young Boat Refugees

Swallow's Dance

Unbreakable Threads

True story of an Australian mother, a refugee boy and what it really means to be a family

Ballerina Dreams

Stepping Stones

A Refugee Family's Journey

Flight

Winner of the 2016 Picture Books CBCA

Baddawi

Drawn Across Borders

True Stories of Migration

Forced to Flee

Refugee Children Drawing on their Experiences

Other Words for Home

A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Drawn Across Borders

True Stories of Migration

Four Feet, Two Sandals

Home of the Brave

Shauzia

What Is the What

The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

On Two Feet and Wings

One Boy's Amazing Story of Survival

Refugees

For Every Child

Dark Dreams

Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers Aged 11-20 Years

Soraya the Storyteller

Takeaways S.

A Long Walk to Water

Based on a True Story

My Name is Sangoel

Grandfather's Journey

A Caldecott Award Winner

The Silence Seeker

A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Rainbow Bird

A Grain of Hope

A picture book about refugees

What Is a Refugee?

A Land of Permanent Goodbyes

One Good Thing about America

Story of a Refugee Girl

Children in Our World

Refugees and Migrants

How Dare the Sun Rise

Memoirs of a War Child

Pictures in My Heart

Seeking Refuge - Afghanistan to Australia

Azzi in Between

The Night Diary

Wisp

The Journey

My Beautiful Birds

Dreamers

BCCB Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards)

Hope in a Ballet Shoe

Orphaned by War, Saved by Ballet: An Extraordinary True Story