Aleutian Sparrow

We Are Not Free

I Lived on Butterfly Hill

Eidi: The Children of Crow Cove

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

The Madman of Piney Woods

Weedflower

World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story

Luke knows his I'nupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. He knows he'll have to leave it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School things are different. Instead of family, there are students -- Eskimo, Indian, White -- who line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on. And instead of comforting words like tutu and maktak, there's English. Speaking I'nupiaq -- or any native language -- is forbidden. And Father Mullen, whose fury is like a force of nature, is ready to slap down those who disobey. Luke struggles to survive at Sacred Heart. But he's not the only one. There's smart-aleck Amiq, a daring leader -- if he doesn't self destruct; Chickie, blond and freckled, a different kind of outsider; and small quiet Junior, noticing everything and writing it all down. Each has their own story to tell. But once their separate stories come together, things at Sacred Heart School -- and in the wider world -- will never be the same.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Aleutian Sparrow

Karen Hesse, Evon Zerbetz, Kim McGillivray, 2003

We Are Not Free

Traci Chee, 2020

I Lived on Butterfly Hill

Marjorie Agosín, E.M. O'Connor, 2014

Eidi: The Children of Crow Cove

Bodil Bredsdorff, 1995

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

Don Brown, 2018

The Madman of Piney Woods

Christopher Paul Curtis, 2014

Weedflower

Cynthia Kadohata, 2006

World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story

Kenan Trebincevic, Susan Shapiro, 2021