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  Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age by Wendy Martin (editor) and Cecelia Tichi (editor)

  A collection of short stories depicting and analyzing key issues in America's "New Gilded Age", a phrase that embodies the glitz and glamour of one of the wealthiest countries in the world but also suggests the greed, corruption, and inequalities teeming just below the surface. Included is "Refresh, Refresh" by Benjamin Percy, a short story about the effects of the war in Iraq on two boys in a small town in Oregon.
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  Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War by Miriam Cooke (editor) and Roshni Rustomji-Kerns (editor)

  This anthology consists of journal entries, interviews, fiction, and poetry by twentieth-century Middle Eastern and South Asian women writers. Some of the works were written in English, but the majority were translated specifically for this anthology. It includes stories and poems about children, such as:
  
  - In "After the storm" (English short story) by Attia Hosain (India, 1953), a little girl tries in vain to suppress her fragmented, tortured memories of violence and the disappearance of her mother and her protectress, through her everyday actions as a servant.
  - In "Tears of joy" (Pushto short story) by Shukria Raad (Afghanistan, 1989), a boy who was orphaned during the Soviet occupa-tion of Afghanistan finds his mother.
  - "Aboud's drawings" (Farsi short story) by Ghodsi Ghazinur (Iran, 1981) tells stories of children who lose their homes and their families due to war, children who remember their terrifying experiences, and children who cannot or will not remember.
  - "The peace game (English poem) by Yasmine Gooneratne (Sri Landa, 1970s) describes children play at war.
  - "Song of becoming" (Arabic poem) by Fadwa Tuqan (West Bank, Israel, 1969) describes stone-throwing children against Israeli military tanks in the 1980s.
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  Corpses of Unity: An Anthology of Poems by Mbizo Chirasha (editor) and Nsah Mala (editor)

  This bilingual poetry anthology is a literary response to the under-reported fratricidal war in Anglophone Cameroon. Written in English and French, the anthology brings together thirty-three poets from thirteen countries in Africa and beyond. Their poems paint raw images of the cruel killings of old people, pregnant women and children like those of #NgarbuhMassacre...
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  Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine

  These short stories by fifteen young writers describe the lives of the Palestinians during and following the the Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009). Stories told from a child's point of view include "Spared" by Rawan Yaghi -- "Toothache in Gaza" by Sameeha Elwa -- "A Wall" by Rawan Yaghi -- "Please Shoot to Kill" by Jehan Alfarra -- "Just Fifteen Minutes" by Wafaa Abu Al-Qomboz.

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  Allah Is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma

  When ten-year-old Birahima's mother dies, he leaves his native village in the Ivory Coast, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by rebels and forced into military service...
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  Amina by J.L. Powers.

  Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then rebel forces kidnap Amina's brother, forcing him to become a soldier in Somalia's brutal ongoing war...
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  Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala

  Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander...
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  The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

  Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because he has a foreign education, her father is arrested by the Taliban.
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  Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani; Viviana Mazza

  Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her fight for survival.
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  Cemetery of Mind: Collected Poems of Dambudzo Marechera

  "This is a book of poems by Dambudzo Marechera, representing the whole spectrum of the young writer's growing literary maturity. The poems sparkle with Marechera's unique wit, always quickened by his uncanny ability to use language to subvert all conventional cultural and political pieties." Included is "Dead Guerrillas Displayed to School Children," a poem written from a child's point of view. (page 70)
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  The Day My Father Became a Bush by Joke Van Leeuwen (Illustrator)

  Translation of: Toen mijn vader een struik werd., Leeuwen, Joke van. Toda's father has gone away to fight in the war. Toda is sent to stay with her mother where it'll be safer. Her journey across the border is full of danger and adventure, but she doesn't give up. She has to find her mother.
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  Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

  In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village to work in a bar in Sài Gòn. Once in the big city, the young girls learn how to drink and flirt (and more) with American GIs in return for money. Decades later, an American veteran, Dan, returns to Việt Nam with his wife, Linda, hoping to find a way to heal from his PTSD; instead, secrets he thought he had buried surface and threaten his marriage. At the same time, Phong—the son of a Black American soldier and a Vietnamese woman—embarks on a search to find both his parents and a way out of Việt Nam to a better life in the United States for himself, his wife Bình, and his children.
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  Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai

  Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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  Incidents at the Shrine by Ben Okri

  This is the first collection of short stories by the author. The first story, "Laughter Beneath the Bridge," is told from the point of view of a young Nigerian boy during the Civil War (1967-1970).
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  A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

  When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of a safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
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  Marie in the Shadow of the Lion by Jerry Piasecki

  Marie is almost thirteen years old. Her friend Joseph is fourteen. Before their next bithdays their lives, as they've known them, will cease to exit.
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  The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Author) and Shane Evans (Illustrator)

  Amira is twelve. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for new responsibilities. And maybe old enough to go to school in Nyala -- Amira's one true dream. But life in her peaceful Sudanese village is shattered when the Janjaweed arrive.
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  Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan

  This collection of five stories takes the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.
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  The Scar of David by Susan Abulhawa

  The Scar of David is historic fiction about a Palestinian family from the village of Ein Hod, which was emptied of its inhabitants by the newly formed State of Israel in 1948. It is told in the first person by Amal, who is born into that family in a UN-administered refugee camp in Jenin, where her family would eventually die waiting, or fighting, to return to their beloved Palestine.
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  Scrapiron Blues by Dambudzo Marechera

  In this collection of Marechera's last writings, the author often takes a child's view to measure the horrors of adult society.
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  Stepping Stones: a Refugee Family's Journey = Ḥaṣá al-ṭuruqāt: riḥalat ʻ̕āʼilah lājiʼah by Margriet Ruurs and Nizar Ali Badr (illustrator)

  Rama and her family, are forced to flee their once-peaceful village to escape the ravages of the civil war raging ever closer to their home With only what they can carry on their backs, Rama and her mother, father, grandfather and brother, Sami, set out to walk to freedom in Europe.
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  War Brothers by Sharon E. McKay, Daniel Lafrance and Daniel Lafrance.(illustrator)

  Jacob is a 14-year-old Ugandan who is sent away to a boys' school. Once there, he assures his friend Tony that they need not be afraid -- they will be safe. But not long after, in the shadow of the night, the boys are abducted. Marched into the jungle, they are brought to an encampment of the feared rebel soldiers...
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  Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins and James Proimos (illustrator)

  Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the postcards stop coming she worries that he will never make it home.

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  Children Affected by Armed Conflict in the Borderlands of Thailand by Kai Chen

  This book explores how children have been affected by armed conflict in the borderlands of Thailand, particularly in the region abutting the Thailand-Myanmar border, and in the most southern part of Thailand.
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  Children of Afghanistan by Jennifer Heath (Editor); Ashraf Zahedi (Editor)

  This edited volume examines: early childhood socialization in war and peace; education, literacy, vocational training, and apprenticeship; refugee life; mental and physical health, including disabilities and nutrition; children's songs, folktales, and art; sports and play; orphans; life on the streets; child labor and children as family breadwinners; child soldiers and militarization; sexual exploitation; growing up in prison; marriage; family violence; and other issues vital to understanding, empowerment, and transformation.
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  Child Soldiers by Candice Mancini (editor)

  A collection of essays that provides varying perspective on child soldiers, discussing their presence in Uganda, Mozambique, and Colombia; how they are treated by the United States after being captured; the causes and effects of children in combat; efforts to end their use; and life after combat.
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  The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City under Fire by Āṭif Abū Sayf (Author), Noam Chomsky (Writer of foreword) and Janice Hickman (Illustrator)

  An ordinary Gazan's chronicle of the struggle to survive during Israel's 2014 invasion of Gaza. The fifty-day Israel-Gaza conflict that began in early July of 2014 left over 2,100 people dead. The overwhelming majority of the dead were Palestinians, including some 500 children. Another 13,000-odd Palestinians were wounded, and 17,200 homes demolished...
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  Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely through a Never-ending War by Deborah Ellis

  The twenty-six boys and girls featured in this book range in age from ten to seventeen, and they speak candidly about their lives now. They are still living in a country at war. Violence and oppression exist all around them. The situation for girls has improved, but it is still difficult and dangerous. And many children -- boys and girls -- are still supporting their families by selling items like pencils and matches on the street. Yet these kids are weathering their lives with remarkable courage and hope, getting as much education and life experience and fun as they can.
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  Off to War: Voices of Soldiers' Children by Deborah Ellis

  The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have impacted the children of soldiers--men and women who have been called away from their families to fight in a faraway war. In their own words, some of these children describe how their experience has marked and shaped their lives.
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  Seeing Like a Child by Clara Han

  An original blend of autobiography and ethnography that re-examines violence and memory from the perspective of a child of Korean War survivors.