The Other Side of the Wall

10 best books like The Other Side of the Wall (Simon Schwartz): Pet, A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer, Jacob's New Dress, Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I, Escape from Syria, Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War, It Rained Warm Bread

Pet

Author

Akwaeke Emezi

Pet is here to hunt a monster.
Are you brave enough to look?

There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made...

A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return

Author	Zeina Abirached
ISBN	0761385681

When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut...

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

Author	Don Brown
ISBN	1328810151

In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...

Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer

Author	Trina Robbins
ISBN	0761360107

In 1938, Lily Renée Wilhelm, a 14-year-old Jewish girl, is living in Vienna when the Nazis march into Austria. After a ship voyage fraught with danger from Nazi torpedoes, teenage Lily reunites with her parents in New York and helps her family earn a living by painting designs on wooden boxes. One day...

Jacob's New Dress

Author	Sarah Hoffman
ISBN	0807563730

Jacob doesn't understand why he can't wear a dress to school. "Boys don't wear dresses," one of the other boys tells him. But his mom, his teacher, and his friend Emily support his efforts to find the perfect dress to wear to school.

This book is a perfect book whether you know a "pink" boy (the male...

Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq

Author	Sarah Glidden
ISBN	1770462554

"An intricate investigation of how the reality of conflict gets filtered through personal, political, and journalistic narrative...This work—quiet but challenging, plain yet beautiful—exemplifies [Glidden's] skillful, sensitive reportage."—Library Journal Starred Review

Cartoonist...

Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I

Author	Henrik Rehr
ISBN	1467772798

"I am not a criminal, because I destroyed that which was evil. I think that I'm good."--Gavrilo Princip, October 23, 1914.

This much we know: On June 28, 1914, a young man stood on a street corner in Sarajevo, aimed a pistol into a stalled car carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and pulled...

Escape from Syria

Author	Samya Kullab
ISBN	1770859829

A graphic story of intense current events.

From the pen of former Lebanon Star reporter Samya Kullab comes a breathtaking and hard-hitting story of one family's struggle to survive in the face of war, displacement, poverty and relocation.

Escape from Syria is a fictionalized account...

Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War

Author	Jessica Dee Humphreys
ISBN	1771381264

The author's memoir of his early life in Congo and the time he was kidnapped by rebels to be trained as a child soldier. He speaks of the harsh realities of his young life, his escape, his stolen childhood that cannot ever be returned even after he's back home, and his eventual immigration to Canada. An honest,...

It Rained Warm Bread

Author

Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet

A middle grade novel in verse about Moishe Moskowitz's Holocaust survival story.

Moishe was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and he was sent to Auschwitz. His home was ravaged, his family torn apart by illness and abduction. Years of brutality drew on as Moishe moved from one labor...