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Inside out & back again
by Thanhha Lai
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
This title was recommended and well-loved by middle readers.
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When clouds touch us
by Thanhháa Lòai
Inspired by the author's childhood, this novel in verse picks up two years after Háa and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the Viòãet Nam War when Mother decides to move the family to Texas for a new job.
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The braid
by Helen Frost
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay, Scotland.
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No matter the distance
by Cindy Baldwin
"Finding a dolphin stranded in the creek behind their house as her cystic fibrosis flares up, Penny forms an immediate connection with the stranded creature she names Rose and must get Rose back to her pod even if it means losing her."
Cindy Baldwin is a person with cystic fibrosis and a disability activist.
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Something like home
by Andrea Beatriz Arango
Desperate to return home while staying with her aunt, Laura finds a puppy and decides that if she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, she might be allowed to visit her parents?—?and then maybe things will go back to the way they should be.
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