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Illegal
by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin
Age: Middle School+
Tough Issue: Poverty, survival,
A fictionalized account of very true events that occur to refugee children and adults attempting to flee the intense poverty, crime, and violence of their homelands. I appreciated that Colfer chose a main character whose background was to reunite with his sister seeking a better life (immigrant) instead of being chased from home by war and violence (refugee). Oftentimes in fiction or the news, refugees plight is elevated above an immigrant escaping poverty but both stories need to be told to understand this world crisis.
Tough Issue: Poverty, survival,
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death of a brotherA fictionalized account of very true events that occur to refugee children and adults attempting to flee the intense poverty, crime, and violence of their homelands. I appreciated that Colfer chose a main character whose background was to reunite with his sister seeking a better life (immigrant) instead of being chased from home by war and violence (refugee). Oftentimes in fiction or the news, refugees plight is elevated above an immigrant escaping poverty but both stories need to be told to understand this world crisis.