Recommended reads to support Refugee Week

June 18th 2019

To mark Refugee Week, our librarians have created a list of recommended reads that explore asylum and refugees. Refugee Week celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK, and encourages a better understanding between communities.

Primary schools  

Refugees by Harriet Brundle

No ballet shoes in Syria by Catherine Bruton

Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

The day war came by Nicola Davies

Refugees by Holly Duhig

Azzi in between by Sarah Garland

Where will I live? by Rosemary McCarney

The suitcase by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

The boy at the back of the class by Onjali Q. Rauf

The journey by Francesca Sanna

  Secondary schools  

Sami's silver lining by Cathy Cassidy

Zenobia by Morten Durr

Boy 87 by Ele Fountain

Refugee by Alan Gratz

Sea prayer by Khaled Hosseini

Do you speak chocolate? by Cas Lester

Who are refugees and migrants? by Michael Rosen and Anne-Marie Young

Far from home by Cath Senker

We are displaced by Malala Yousafzai and Liz Welsh

Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah

To find out more about Refugee Week, please visit: www.refugeeweek.org.uk