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Omaha Reading Challenge 2021: Read a Book about Refugees or the Immigrant Experience

OPL librarians have created a series of reading challenges to help you stretch beyond your comfort zone. This list features titles suggested for you to complete the "Read a book about refugees or the immigrant experience" challenge. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

36 items

  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    Graphic NovelNew York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2007. — GRAPHIC NOVEL Tan
  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. — B Iftin 2018
  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2017. — FICTION Hamid 2017
  • The Ungrateful Refugee

    What Immigrants Never Tell You

    Nayeri, Dina,
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Catapult, [2019] — B Nayeri 2019
  • Ink Knows No Borders

    Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience

    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Seven Stories Press, [2019] — 811 Ink 2019
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    Graphic NovelMarietta, Georgia : Top Shelf Productions, 2019. — GRAPHIC NOVEL B Takei
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog and mentioned in the Reading Challenge book club.
    BookNew York : Random House, [2016] — FICTION Mbue 2016
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
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  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019] — FICTION Vuong 2019
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog and mentioned in the Reading Challenge book club.
    Graphic NovelNew York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2020] — jGRAPHIC B Mohamed Jamieson
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Neal Porter Books/Holiday House, [2018] — jB Morales
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    Picture BookNew York, NY, Dial Books for Young Readers, [2019] — jP Meddour
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge book club.
    Large PrintWaterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021. — LARGE PRINT Engel 2021
  • The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902

    Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City

    Seligman, Scott D.,
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge book club.
    Book[Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2020] — 381 Seligman 2020
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge book club.
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, 2019. — FICTION Lefteri 2019
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge book club.
    BookNew York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018] — jFICTION Hiranandani