Middle grade fiction about refugees
We started school this week. I love this time of year with all the new potential! I'm so excited to share some of these new titles with my students this year. Last week I read a terrific new one-it's called "Nowhere Boy" by Katherine Marsh. It's the story of two boys (told from both points of view). Max lives with his parents and his older (and perfect) sister. They've just moved to Brussels and Max is not happy about it. He's enrolled in a French school (he doesn't really speak French and has a tutor to help with that) but his parents think this will help some of the trouble he was having at his old school. The other boy is Ahmed, who is fleeing Syria with his dad. When his dad disappears trying to pull their small boat to safety, Ahmed finds himself alone in Brussels trying to avoid the police and make his way to England, where his dad thought they would be able to settle. Ahmed ends up living in Max's basement and when M...