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In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees
Susan Kuklin
Illustrator: Susan Kuklin, photographer
Ages: 14+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 978-0-7636-7960-6
Keywords: Immigration, War, Discrimination, Refugee Resettlement, Refugee Camps, Trauma, (Own Voices ?), Tajiks, Karens, Nuers, Yazidis, Tutsis, Hutus
Five refugees from three Asian and two African countries describe the danger they fled to seek safe new lives in the United States. Color photographs. Extensive back matter.