My Canary Yellow Star

Cuba - The Culture (Lands, Peoples & Cultures)

Boys Don't Cry

My Town / Mi Pueblo

Is Everyone Moonburned but Me?

Shimmy

Buddies for Life (Cover-To-Cover Novels: Contemporary Fiction)

It’s OK: Free to be me

Life in Communist Hungary isn't easy for thirteen-year-old Nelly. Food is scarce and so are clothes. But she has great friends and a special boy she likes, so the hardships are bearable. When the Hungarian Revolution erupts in 1956, Nelly's world crumbles. Along with the Revolution comes a new tide of anti-Semitism. Nelly's family is Jewish, and her parents are convinced that the family must flee. Everything she cares about - her cozy room, her favourite books, and her closest friends - will have to stay behind. There's not time even to say good-bye. Nelly's adventures during the family's harrowing escape to freedom are by turns funny and sad. Will she ever find a place to call home?

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My Canary Yellow Star

Eva Wiseman, 2001

Cuba - The Culture (Lands, Peoples & Cultures)

Susan Hughes, April Fast, 2004

Boys Don't Cry

Malorie Blackman, 2010

My Town / Mi Pueblo

Luisa Uribe, Nicholas Solis, 2022

Is Everyone Moonburned but Me?

Stella Pevsner, 2000

Shimmy

Anne Cateaux, 2021

Buddies for Life (Cover-To-Cover Novels: Contemporary Fiction)

Kaarin Marx-Smith, 2002

It’s OK: Free to be me

Katherine Therien, Samantha Collinsworth, 2023