Description
Inprint Educational introduces younger readers to the refugee experience, from leaving to surviving to adapting to new homes, communities, and cultures. The series, Leaving My Homeland and My New Home/Hoping for a Home, has 25 titles.
The age range is 8 to 14
Woven through the contextual history of each country – cultural, socioeconomic, political – is a child’s specific journey: Sonita, whose parents are Afghan refugees; Etienne, who was stolen from his family in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and forced into being a child soldier; Zainab, whose prosperous family in Iraq must start again in the U.S.; and Roj, displaced by war in Syria, who escapes to a refugee camp in Turkey before finally being granted asylum in Germany.
Putting specific names and faces (albeit fictional, but undoubtedly representative) to the growing statistics and difficult headlines repeatedly in the news helps young readers build understanding and experience empathy. Each volume’s ending pages include “You Can Help!” checklists, suggesting ways for children (with and without their adults) to raise awareness and funding, encourage ways to speak up, and where to find volunteer opportunities. Timely, informative, and enabling – not to mention thoughtfully humanizing – this important series belongs on school and library bookshelves everywhere.
