Page 2 - Finding Refuge: Real-Life Immigration Stories from Young People

To my parents

Text copyright © 2021 by Victorya Rouse
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rouse, Victorya, author.
Title: Finding refuge : real-life immigration stories from young people / Victorya Rouse.
Description: Minneapolis : Zest Books, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references
and index. | Audience: Ages 11–18 | Audience: Grades 7–9 | Summary: “What
is a refugee? English teacher Victorya Rouse assembles a collection of true teen
immigration stories essential for our times, complete with maps, context, and
background on the refugees’ home countries” —Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020038230 (print) | LCCN 2020038231 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781541581562 (library binding) | ISBN 9781541581609 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781728401645 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Teenage immigrants—Juvenile literature. | Teenage refugees—Juvenile
literature.
Classification: LCC HV4005 .R68 2021 (print) | LCC HV4005 (ebook) |
DDC 305.235092/6912—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038230
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038231
Manufactured in the United States of America
1-47340-47966-5/18/2021