Refugee Week - YA

Updated June 8, 2026
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Let's go swimming on doomsday
Anderson, Natalie C.
Paper Book
'[A] potent, brutal read... You won't be able to forget this story of a young boy robbed of his own childhood.' Marie Claire, best YA 2019 I tell myself I've chosen to live, but the water knows the truth. Waves brush my arms, soft as shroud linen. The water knows I have to die....
Seven million sunflowers
Duffy, Malcolm
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE FCBG CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2025, OLDER READERS' CATEGORY Escaping war is only half the battle as the Kovalenko family swap Ukrainian dangers for life with a British family. 15-year-old Kateryno and her family live in Kharkiv. Their lives are...
You don't know what war is
Skalietska, Yeva
Paper Book
***A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*** *** Shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year: Older Non Fiction The Week Junior Book Awards*** Featured on This Morning, Steph's Packed Lunch, Radio 4: Today and Channel 4 News _______________ ...
We are displaced : my journey and stories from refugee girls around the world
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
In this powerful and emotional New York Times bestseller, Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai shares various stories of displacement, including her own. Part memoir, part communal storytelling, We Are Displaced introduces readers to some of the incredible girls...
Refugee
Gratz, Alan
Paper Book
  "A gripping, visceral, and hold-your-breath intense story of three young refugees." - John Green This action-packed novel tackles topics both timely and timeless: courage, survival, and the quest for home. JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. ...
The bone sparrow
Fraillon, Zana
Paper Book
Winner of the CILIP Amnesty Honour 2017. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has...

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