Michael Martchenko

Robert N. Munsch

Saoussan Askar

Escaping with her family from war-torn Lebanon, Saoussan attends a Canadian school where the language and customs are unfamiliar and sometimes scary.

From Far Away

Caroline Lewicki

This book might be a good tool for talking to kids about a classmate who might be a recent immigrant or refugee, but I wished that it had a more kid point of view. It felt very much like "adult writing in a child's voice." I also wished that it talked more about how Saoussan was able to adjust - the ESL teachers she might have had, the friends who might have been interested in learning more about her and where she was from. It just felt sort of stunted.

From Far Away

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