suggested+reading+list

This List is taken from the teacher's notes provided by Penguin Books
 * Related/Further Reading**


 * The Refugee Experience**

Al-Windawi, Thura (2004) **Thura’s Diary.** Penguin. The diary of an Iraqi teenager during the bombing of Baghdad.

Anderson, Rachel (2001) **Warlands.** Penguin. The story Of Ho, a Vietnamese war orphan, and his resettlement in Britain.

Ashley, Bernard (1999) **Little Soldier.** Orchard Books Kaninda is an East African child victim of war. He joins a rebel army, but becomes an unwilling refugee when he is 'saved' by the Red Cross.

Baillie, Allan (1986) **Little Brother.** Nelson, Melbourne.

Breckler, Rosemary (1996) Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese wartime childhood. Houghton Mifflin, Boston. **(Picture book)**

Catran, Wendy (2001) **Not Raining Today.** Lothian. The story of two young Tibetan Buddhist nuns in danger after hanging a poster of the Dalai Lama.

Cha, Dia (1996) **Dia’s Story Cloth:** the Hmong people’s journey of freedom. Lee & Low, New York. **(Picture book)**

Edwards, Hazel (1990) **Boat Boy**. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Marrickville.
 * (Picture book)**

Ellis, Deborah (2001) **Parvana.** Allen & Unwin. When Parvana's father is arrested by the Taliban, she must transform herself into a boy so her family can survive. Also**: Parvana’s Journey** (2002) and **Shauzia** (2003)

Filopovic, Zlata (1993) **Zlata’s Diary.** Penguin, Camberwell

Flynn, Warren (1996) **Different Voices.** Fremantle Arts Press, Fremantle.

Gavin, Jamila (1994) **The Wheel of Surya**. Mammoth, London.

Gleitzman, Morris (2002) **Boy Overboard.** Penguin. Soccer-mad Jamal and his family escape Afghanistan.

Gleitzman, Morris (2004) **Girl Underground**, Penguin. Jamal’s family is now in an Australian detention centre.

Heffernan, John (2000) **More Than Gold.** Margaret Hamilton Books. Raiko, a Bosnian refugee, lives in a small Australian country town. He dreams of being an Olympic runner.

Heffernan, John and Andrew McLean (2001) **My Dog**. Margaret Hamilton Books. Short listed for both CBCA Book of the Year (Younger readers) and Picture Book of the Year in 2002. My Dog is the sad and moving story of a young boy fleeing his home in Kosovo. **(picture book)**

Hest, Amy (1997) **When Jessie Came Across the Sea.** Walker Books, London. (**Picture book)**

Hicyilmaz, Gaye (2000) **Smiling for Strangers.** Dolphin. Fourteen-year-old Nina is forced to leave her village in Yugoslavia and escape to England. Her only hope, the name and address of a complete stranger.

Ho, Minfong (1991) **The Clay Marble**. Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, New York.

Hoffman, Mary and Littlewood, Karin (2002) **The Colour of Home**. Frances Lincoln, London. Hassan's family flees Somalia and settles in England. (Picture book)

Huynh, Quang Nhuang (1982) **The Land I Lost:** adventures of a boy in Vietnam. Harper & Row, New York.

Kidd, Diana (1989) **Onion Tears**. Collins, Sydney.

Kilborne, Sarah S. (1999) **Leaving Vietnam: the true story of Tuan Ngo**. Aladdin, New York.

Knight, Margy Burns and O’Brien, Anne Sibley (1993) **Who Belongs Here?** an American story Tilbury, Gardiner, Me. (Picture book)

Laird, Elizabeth (1991) **Kiss the dust**. Mammoth, London.

Lingard, Joan (1991) **Between Two Worlds.** Hamilton, London.

Latifa (2002) **My Forbidden Face:** growing up under the Taliban, a young woman's story. Virago. The true story of Latifa, a young Afghani woman, who is 16 when the Taliban take control.

Mattingley, Christobel (1985) **The Angel with a Mouth-organ**. Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton. (Picture book)

Mattingley, Christobel (1993) **No Gun for Asmir.** Puffin, Ringwood, Vic.

Mattingley, Christobel (1995) **Asmir in Vienna.** Puffin, Ringwood, Vic.

Mattingley, Christobel (1996) **Escape from Sarajevo.** Puffin, Ringwood, Vic.

Munsch, Robert (1995**) From Far Away.** Annick Press, Buffalo, N.Y. (Picture book)

Nye, Naomi Shihab (1999) **Habibi**. Simon Pulse Liyana's father moves the family from St Louis to Jerusalem.

Sendak, Maurice (1994) **I Dream of Peace** UNICEF, New York. (Picture book)

Shea, Pegi Dietz (1995) **The Whispering Cloth: a refugee story** : Boyd Mills, Honesdale, Pa. (Picture book)

Strachan, Ian (1984) **Journey of a Thousand Miles.** Methuen, London.

Strachan, Ian (1992) **The Second Step.** Mammoth, London.

Tolbert, Steve (1991) **Channeary.** Longman Cheshire, Melbourne.

Tolbert, Steve (2005) **Dreaming Australia** Ginninderra Press. Soraya flees Aghanistan and after a difficult journey finds herself in Australia’s Woomera detention centre.

Whelan, Gloria (1993) **Goodbye Vietnam**. Random House, New York.

Zephaniah, Benjamin (2001) **Refugee Boy.** Bloomsbury. Half Eritrean, half-Ethiopian, Alem becomes an asylum seeker when his father takes him to England and leaves him to struggle with the bureaucratic hurdles faced by asylum seekers.

Zhang, Song Nan (1993) A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night: an autobiography in art. Tundra Books, Montreal. (Picture book)

Ashley, Bernard (1999) **Little Soldier.** Lane Cove, NSW: Orchard Books.
 * Human Rights in Literature**

Grificoli, Ann. (2002). **The Village that Vanished**. New York: Dial. (**picture book).**

Hiçyilmaz, Gaye. 1998. **Smiling for Strangers.** London: Orion. Refugee from former Yugoslavia.

Mankell, Henning (2000) **Secrets in the Fire**. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. Effect of land mines in Mozambique.

Naidoo, Beverley (2000) **The Other Side of Truth.** Puffin Books. Freedom of speech in Nigeria.

Sisulu, Elinor Batezat (1996) **The Day Gogo Went to Vote**. New York: Little, Brown. (**picture book)** Thembi and her great-grandmother go together to vote in post-apartheid South Africa.

Ajidarma, Seno Gumira (1995) **Eyewitness**. Potts Point, NSW: Imprint. Protest stories from Indonesia.
 * Anthologies of short stories and Poetry**

Wayland.
 * Breaking Free: An Anthology of Human Rights Poetry** (1994) Hove:

Amnesty International. 1999**. London: Bloomsbury. Illustrated stories and poems for young people.
 * Dare to be Different: A Celebration of Freedom in Association with

Flattley, Kerry & Wallace-Crabbe, Chris (1992) **From the Republic of Conscience: An International Anthology of Poetry**. Aird Books.

Goode, Katherine (1997) **Jumping to Heaven: stories about refugee children.** Wakefield Press. Short stories based on interviews with Australian refugee children.

Hyde, Michael & Parr, Helen (1995) **Same Difference**. Carlton, VIC: Curriculum Corporation. Access Asia series. Stories about teenage experience in Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia and Australia.

Mitchell, Dee (ed) (1993) **Amnesty**. Port Melbourne, VIC: Minerva Australia (Reed Books). Stories by Australian writers for adults and children.

Muse, Daphne (ed) (1995) **Prejudice: Stories about Hate, Ignorance, Revelation, and Transformation**. New York, NY: Hyperion Books for Children.

Naidoo, Beverley (2001) **Out of Bounds: stories of conflict and hope**. Camberwell, VIC: Puffin Books. One short story for each decade of Apartheid in South Africa.

Jackson, Livia E. Bitton (1980) **Elli: Coming of age in the Holocaust.** London: HarperCollins. Memoir of a young Hungarian Auschwitz survivor.
 * Memoirs and Testimonies – novel length**

Latifa (2002) **My Forbidden Face: Growing up under the Taliban, a young woman’s story.** London: Virago Press.

Lobel, Anita (1998) **No Pretty Pictures:** a child of war. New York, NY: Avon Books. A refugee from WWII.

Pilkington, Doris (Garimara, Nugi) (1996) **Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence.** St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press.Book on which the film, ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’ was based. Stolen aboriginal children escape back to their families.

Ung, Loung (2000) **First They Killed My Father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers.** Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins.Living under the Khmer Rouge regime.

Zable, Arnold (1991) **Jewels and Ashes**. Newham, VIC: Scribe Publications.Australian-Jewish refugee family history.