Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Displaced by Dean Hughes

Displaced by Dean Hughes

Two Syrian refugee teens trying to make a living on the street corners of Beirut must decide how far they’re willing to go to make a home for their family in an unwelcoming country. Thirteen-year-old Hadi Toma and his family are displaced. At least that’s what the Lebanese government calls them and the thousands of other Syrian refugees that have flooded into Beirut. But as […]

September 8, 2020 / 0 Comments
Four-Four-Two by Dean Hughes

Four-Four-Two by Dean Hughes

Yuki Nakahara is an American. But it’s the start of World War II, and America doesn’t see it that way. Like many other Japanese Americans, Yuki and his family have been forced into an internment camp in the Utah desert. But Yuki isn’t willing to sit back and accept this injustice—it’s his country too, and he’s going to prove it by enlisting in the army […]

November 17, 2016 / 0 Comments