Children of War

7 best books like Children of War (Deborah Ellis): This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto, When Michael Met Mina, Full Cicada Moon, Home of the Brave, Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing, Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope, Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother

This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto

Author	Suketu Mehta
ISBN	1473563496

An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City.

Drawing on his family’s own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering...

When Michael Met Mina

Author	Randa Abdel-Fattah
ISBN	1743534973

Before Mina, my life was like a completed jigsaw puzzle but Mina has pushed the puzzle onto the floor. I have to start all over again, figuring out where the pieces go.

When Michael meets Mina, they are at a rally for refugees - standing on opposite sides.

Mina fled Afghanistan with her...

Full Cicada Moon

Author

Marilyn Hilton

Inside Out and Back Again meets One Crazy Summer and Brown Girl Dreaming in this novel-in-verse about fitting in and standing up for what’s right

It's 1969, and the Apollo 11 mission is getting ready to go to the moon. But for half-black, half-Japanese Mimi, moving to a predominantly white...

Home of the Brave

Author	Katherine Applegate
ISBN	0312367651

Kek comes from Africa. In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He's never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter – cold and unkind.

In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother...

Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

Author	Penny Kittle
ISBN	0325010978

Please join us in congratulating Penny Kittle for her 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them

"This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching...

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

Author	Nikki Grimes
ISBN	1416971440

Barack Obama is the story of an exceptional man, as told by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Bryan Collier, winners of the Coretta Scott King Award.

Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia...

Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother

Author	Sonia Nazario
ISBN	0812971787

A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.

In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran...