Stormy seas :

By: Leatherdale, Mary Beth [author.]Contributor(s): Shakespeare, Eleanor [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto ; Berkeley ; Vancouver : Annick Press, [2017]Copyright date: ℗♭2017Description: 56 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 29 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781554518968; 1554518962; 9781554518951; 1554518954Subject(s): Boat people -- Juvenile literature | Refugee children -- Juvenile literature | Refugees -- Juvenile literature | Boat people -- Anecdotes -- Juvenile literature | Refugee children -- Anecdotes -- Juvenile literature | Refugees -- Anecdotes -- Juvenile literature | Re⁺ѓfugie⁺ѓs de la mer -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse | Enfants re⁺ѓfugie⁺ѓs -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse | Re⁺ѓfugie⁺ѓs -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse | Re⁺ѓfugie⁺ѓs de la mer -- Anecdotes -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse | Enfants re⁺ѓfugie⁺ѓs -- Anecdotes -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse | Re⁺ѓfugie⁺ѓs -- Anecdotes -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse | Refugees | Refugee children | Refugees -- Anecdotes | Refugee children -- Anecdotes | JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Social Topics -- Emigration & Immigration | Boat people | Refugee children | Refugees | Refugee children -- Anecdotes | Refugee children | Refugees -- Anecdotes | RefugeesGenre/Form: Picture books. | Anecdotes. | Juvenile works. | Nonfiction. | Picture books for children. | Anecdotes. | Picture books. Additional physical formats: Stormy seas.:DDC classification: j305.9/06914 LOC classification: HV640 | .L355 2017
Contents:
They came by boat : a brief history -- Turned away -- Fighting to survive -- Stormy seas -- Fenced in -- Nothing left to lose -- They came by boat : from WWII to today.
Awards: Maine Student Book Award nominee, 2018-2019.Summary: "A desperate last hope for safety and freedom. The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past few years. This book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; Jose⁺ѓ tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba flees Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life. Stormy Seas combines a vivid and contemporary collage-based design with dramatic storytelling to produce a book that makes for riveting reading as well as a source of timely information. These remarkable accounts will give readers a keen appreciation of the devastating effects of war and poverty on youth like themselves, and helps put the mounting current refugee crisis into stark context."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 54).

They came by boat : a brief history -- Turned away -- Fighting to survive -- Stormy seas -- Fenced in -- Nothing left to lose -- They came by boat : from WWII to today.

"A desperate last hope for safety and freedom. The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past few years. This book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; Jose⁺ѓ tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba flees Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life. Stormy Seas combines a vivid and contemporary collage-based design with dramatic storytelling to produce a book that makes for riveting reading as well as a source of timely information. These remarkable accounts will give readers a keen appreciation of the devastating effects of war and poverty on youth like themselves, and helps put the mounting current refugee crisis into stark context."-- Provided by publisher.

890L Lexile.

Maine Student Book Award nominee, 2018-2019.