(Sectioned by Country)

Bosnia
Black, Eric. Bosnia: Fractured Region. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 1997. Grades 9 and up
Cothran, Helen. War-Torn Bosnia. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2001. Grades 9 and up
Filipovic, Zlata. Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Grades 6 and up
Fireside, Harvey and Bryna J. Fireside. Young People from Bosnia Talk about War. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996. Grades 7 and up
Reger, James P. Rebuilding of Bosnia. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 1997. Grades 7 and up
Ricciardi, Sherry. Bosnia: The Struggle for Peace. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 1996. Grades 5 - 8
Yancey, Diane. Life in War-Torn Bosnia. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 1995. Grades 6 and up
Cambodia
Ho, Minfong. Clay Marble. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993. Grades 5 - 9
Kiernan, Ben. The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. Grades 10 and Above
Ly, Y. Heaven Becomes Hell: A Survivor’s Story of Life Under the Khmer Rouge. New Haven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2000. Grades 10 and up
Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Girl of Cambodia Remembers. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Grades 10 and up
Iraq
Bodnarchuk, Kari. Kurdistan: Region under Siege (World in Conflict Series). Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 2000. Grades 7 -12
King, John. Kurds. Orlando, FL: Steck-Vaughn, 1994. Grades 5 - 8
Laird, Elizabeth. Kiss the Dust. New York: Penguin Books, 1994. Grades 6 – 8
Smothers, Mary Ann, Ali Atatas, and Texas Memorial Museum. Journey through Kurdistan, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Grades 6 -10
Rwanda
Bodnarchuk, Kari J. Rwanda: A Country Torn Apart. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 1999. Young Adult
Chikwende,Vincent Emenike and Aimable Twagilimana. Hutu and Tutsi. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1997. Grades 5 - 9
Freeman, Charles. Crisis in Rwanda, Vol. 3. Chicago, IL: Raintree Publishers, 1998. Grades 6 -10
Pierce, Julian R. Speak Rwanda. London: Picador, 2000. Grades 10 and up
Twagilimana, Aimable. Teenage Refugees from Rwanda Speak Out. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1997. Grades 5 and up
Sierra Leone
Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Young Adult
This book is the story of a child soldier in Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war. Ishmael Beah is 1 of 300,000 child soldiers worldwide forced to fight in civil war and 1 of 1600 Sierra Leonans who immigrated to the US.
Somali
Hussein, Ikram ed. Teenage Refugees from Somali Speak Out (In Their Own Voices). New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1997. Young Adult
Barnes,Virginia Lee and Janice Boddy. Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. Young Adult
Sudan
Bixler, Mark. The Lost Boys of Sudan, University of Georgia Press, 2005.
Deng, Alephonsion, Benson Deng, and Benjamin Ajak, with Judy A. Bernstein. They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys of Sudan. New York: Public Affairs Books, 2006.

This book is the first personal account of three of the “lost boys of Sudan.” Forced to leave Sudan due to war, they wound up in the United States. This non-fiction account as told by these three young men reveals the struggles of refugees and the challenging process of acculturation.

A reader’s guide and a teacher’s guide are also available through Public Affairs Books.
Eggers, Dave. What is the What New York: McSweeney’s Publishing, 2006.