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Acclaimed performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah's honest, wry and poignant story of a young refugee left in London is of even more power and pertinence today than when it was first published. Life is not safe for Alem. His father is Ethopian, his mother Eritrean. Their countries are at war, and Alem is welcome in neither place. So Alem is excited to spend a holiday in London with his father - until he wakes up to find him gone. What seems like a betrayal is in fact an act of love, but now Alem is alone in a strange country and he must forge his own path....

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers - especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, whom her family can never know about.

Emilie pareciera ser una chica como cualquiera, preocupada por su aspecto, por las calorías, por el ejercicio. Sin embargo, para ella la comida representa una lucha constante todos los días y ya es difícil ocultárselo a sus padres. Samuel es un chico de Ghana que se embarca en un peligroso viaje para llegar a Europa, encontrar trabajo y enviar algo de dinero a su familia. Eso es lo que hacen todos los chicos de su edad para dejar atrás la pobreza y encontrar un mejor futuro; incluso si para ello tienen que arriesgar la vida.

Seis jóvenes de distintas zonas de España soñaron con un futuro mejor y emprendieron un viaje en tren para el que no llevaban billete de vuelta. Sin billete de vuelta es una novela que aborda con gran realismo el fenómeno de la emigración que tuvo lugar en España en los años cincuenta y sesenta.

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents.

After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous safety in a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where a greedy relative called Small Auntie offers her a place to stay—but her hospitality isn’t free. With her father’s words echoing in her ears, Mai endures the hardships of the camp, which are tempered only by her dreams of being sponsored by her uncle for entry into America.

Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father is wealthy enough to provide for his family but unconventional enough to spare Ling Fan from the debilitating foot-binding required of most well-off girls. But Ling Fan’s life is upended when her brother dies of influenza and their father is imprisoned under false accusations. Hoping to earn the money that will secure her father’s release, Ling Fan disguises herself as a boy and takes her brother’s contract to work for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in America.

Seventeen-year-old Mariana Rodriguez is devastated when her best friend and longtime crush, Dennis, chooses to date her tormentor over her. So, when the new employee at her uncle’s dive shop, Sam, shows interest in her, Mariana feels like she’s found the perfect springboard to moving on. But after both the shop and her abuela's house are vandalized, Mariana can't help but suspect that the two events are connected. She reluctantly calls on the one person who can help her. To protect her family from financial ruin, Mariana must decide who to trust.

Hilla on 12-vuotias tyttö, joka on adoptoitu kaksivuotiaana Suomeen Kolumbiasta. Hän ei muista synnyinmaastaan juuri mitään, mutta siitä huolimatta hän on monen suomalaisen mielestä ulkomaalainen. Koulussa Hilla saa kuulla olevansa mutakuono. Tyttö kääntyy yhä enemmän sisäänpäin.

15-årige Carsten har en gammel drøm om et lyst og smukt liv sammen med sin veninde Ellen. Han regnes af alle for en stille og god dreng, men da drømmen om Ellen brister, ramler alting sammen - og "de fremmede" bliver ofrene. Snart lægger han planer om at kaste brandbomber mod indvandrerne .

Thanks to a tiny transgression after school one day, Melody is shocked to discover that her parents have decided to move her and her mom out of New York City to join her father in Seoul—immediately! Barely having had the chance to say goodbye to her best friend before she's on a plane, Melody is resentful and homesick. But she soon finds herself settling into their super-luxe villa, meeting cool friends at school, and discovering the alluring aspects of living in Korea. Life in Seoul is amazing, until cracks begin to form on its glittering surface....

It’s been six months since Jaime Richards’ best friend died. Everyone still gives the incident a wide berth with a polite, "How are you now"? But she’s not all right. So for the school holidays, Jaime decides to head Far North to Blake Townsend’s station home. He’s always been the one to listen, but she soon realises that Blake isn’t the guy she knew at school. Not only does she find out he has a sister, Kerra, whom he’s never mentioned, but Jaime discovers what a devastating effect a mysterious secret has on the Townsend family.

När Samir och hans familj får veta att de inte får stanna i Sverige och kommer att tvingas återvända till Afghanistan fattar han ett drastiskt beslut. De kan inte skicka tillbaka honom om de inte vet var han finns ... Mitt i natten rymmer han och gömmer sig ute i skogen, men livet på flykt är tufft och han kommer att behöva vänner om han ska klara sig.

Original, gribende, supersjov og velskrevet YA-roman om en norsk-pakistansk familie, oplevet gennem 15-årige Mahmouds opmærksomme bevidsthed. Sharif fortæller om en skelsættende sommer i indvandrerghettoen, hvor Mahmouds rolle som henholdsvis bror og søn kommer på prøve. Bogen skildrer køn og identitet i en smeltedigel af skandinavisk frisind, højredrejet udlændingepolitik, Bolly Wood og muslimske leveregler.

In this mixed-media collection of short stories, personal essays, and poetry, this celebrated group of authors share the borders they have crossed, the struggles they have pushed through, and the two cultures they continue to navigate as Mexican Americans. Living Beyond Borders is at once an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and hopeful love letter from the Mexican American community to today's young listeners.

Jedes Jahr im Frühling kommen die Nomaden auf dem Weg zu ihrem Sommerlager in den afghanischen Bergen in Sorayas Dorf vorbei. Mit ihnen kommt Tarek, der so wunderbare Geschichten zu erzählen weiß. Doch dieses Jahr wartet Soraya vergeblich auf ihn. Als siebte Tochter ist sie einem alten Brauch zufolge als Junge aufgewachsen, konnte sich frei bewegen und zur Schule gehen. Mit vierzehn Jahren hat sie jedoch das Alter erreicht, wo sie schon längst wieder als Mädchen leben sollte, in der Stille des Hauses. Die Taliban drängen unmissverständlich darauf.

Zu fünft brechen sie auf: Miguel, Fernando, Emilio, Jaz und Ángel. Die Jugendlichen haben sich erst vor kurzem kennengelernt, aber sie haben ein gemeinsames Ziel: Sie wollen es über die Grenze in die USA schaffen. Vor ihnen liegen mehr als zweieinhalbtausend Kilometer durch ganz Mexiko, die sie als blinde Passagiere auf Güterzügen zurücklegen müssen. Nicht nur Hunger und Durst, Hitze und Kälte sind ihre Gegner - unterwegs lauern auch noch zahlreiche andere Gefahren: Unfälle, Banditen, korrupte Polizisten, Drogenhändler und Menschenschmuggler. Doch wenn sie zusammenhalten, haben sie eine Chance!

Si alguien te invita a saltar al vacío, con esa energía efervescente en los ojos, una no piensa en el vértigo, sino en las cosquillas en los dedos." Algunas personas, las que verdaderamente importan, aunque se marchen, nunca se van. Tras un año separados, Naira y Jarek deciden irse a vivir juntos a Londres, la ciudad en la que se conocieron durante su Erasmus.

It was never going to be easy growing up black in a predominantly white western culture, but with the help of her afro sisters from another mother and Oz besties, Tabitha wouldn’t have to do it alone. Tabitha’s family were born in East Africa but had moved to Australia, where Tabitha was born. She was lucky enough to have the opportunity to visit Africa frequently and considered both Africa and Australia home. Unapologetically Black follows the life of Tabitha and her family and friends as they explore what it’s like to be black in Western culture.

Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger - better - than everyone around him. But he wasn't raised to show off, and drawing attention to himself could be dangerous. Lately it's difficult to hold back and keep his heroics in the shadows. When Clark follows the sound of a girl crying, he comes across Gloria Alvarez and discovers a dark secret lurking in Smallville. Turns out, Clark's not the only one hiding something. Teaming up with his best friend, Lana Lang, he throws himself into the pursuit of the truth. What evil lies below the surface of his small town?