Current Events & Contemporary Issues
-- Curriculum Connections, 10/1/2008
BRADMAN, Tony, ed. Give Me Shelter: Stories about Children Who Seek Asylum. 220p. glossary. Frances Lincoln. 2007. Tr $16.95. ISBN 978-1-84507-522-4. LC number unavailable.
Gr 5-8–Eleven original, powerful stories of young people fleeing war-torn locations—the Congo, Iraq, Turkey, Kosovo, Somalia, Zimbabwe, and Darfur, among other places. The selections are fictional, but were based on actual sources. Some of the stories were written by refugees and others by individuals who worked in refugee camps; all are heartwrenching in their depiction of human desperation. B
HEARN, Emily & Marywinn Milne, eds. Our New Home: Immigrant Children Speak. 129p. illus. CIP. Second Story, dist. by Orca. 2008. pap. $13.95. ISBN 978-1-897187-32-6. LC C2007-905435-8.
Gr 5-8–Through brief first-person accounts and artwork, young Canadian immigrants from around the world recount their experiences and thoughts about leaving their native lands and adjusting to a new culture. B
