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A rainy walk turns into a close-up encounter with migrating toads and people helping them cross a road towards ponds. The book joins a family story with information about migration and human-made roads.

A family’s wartime departure from Florence brings Renato’s attachment to home into focus.

Anna’s family travels to Canada for seasonal farm work, and Anna imagines what it would be like to have a settled home. The story connects her personal feelings with the wider experience of migrant workers.

Victor’s search for work becomes a struggle to survive, shaped by his responsibility to his family and his friendship with Rico. The journey brings him into contact with smugglers and the risks of crossing the border.

This is a family-centred story about migration, bereavement and belonging, with Sophie’s own growth alongside Pedro’s uncertain future. A refugee’s experience is also part of the family’s story.

This illustrated family-history story traces Jewish roots through generations and connects them with African-American and Geechee heritage. A recurring Friday-night candle-lighting tradition remembers the family’s Jewish ancestry.

A broad historical survey combines movement, conflict and individual lives, including artists, workers and people challenging racial exclusion.

This is a mystery driven by an investigation, uncertain trust and danger to Connie. Its premise also brings workplace upheaval and Maria’s precarious position into the story.

A historical coming-of-age story about a family’s separation and a young person adapting to a new country, culture and language.

This is a historical story of survival and displacement, told through Devorah’s experience as she leaves Poland and begins again in South Africa.

This is a contemporary relationship story shaped by differences in family circumstances and by immigration enforcement. Alma and Evan each have ambitions to leave their town, but their relationship confronts them with difficult choices.

This is a story about a young person confronting uncertainty over belonging and family security, alongside an urgent journey and a new friendship.

This is a time-travel story that uses six children’s visits to different periods to explore England’s past. History is joined to questions about how people are governed and treated.

This is a family-history journey told by an adopted girl, with migration and travel across Canada at its centre. Place names also serve as vocabulary, so the story has a clear language-learning element.

A story of memory, homesickness and making a life in a new place, told through Grandma Nutcracker's perspective and her advice to a visiting girl.

This is a historical refugee story centred on a child adapting to a new country while carrying uncertainty about family left behind. It combines moments of welcome with prejudice, rather than presenting refuge as a simple fresh start.

This is a tense journey story centred on two cousins seeking a chance to make their own choices. Jaime’s drawing gives him a personal connection to home as the journey changes what it means to him.

This is a story of a family fleeing discrimination and trying to reach a new home, with Desta taking on greater responsibility after a devastating loss.

A cross-generational mystery unfolds through Henni’s investigation and emails with Leo. Alongside puzzles and friendship, the book examines migration, prejudice, belonging and the pressure placed on people whose home is questioned.

This is a high-stakes survival story about three teenagers fleeing danger, with friendship and hope providing emotional counterweights to fear, loss and an uncertain journey.

This is a fast-moving flight narrative that combines danger, travel and comic mishaps. Its central perspective brings migration, residence in Germany and fear of deportation into an adventure about an unlikely friendship.

Expect an outward-looking wilderness adventure that moves from wildlife and sea-kayaking to suspense involving a ship and possible migrant smuggling. Aaron’s crush, family comparisons and changing relationships add a personal strand.

Expect a multi-strand teen story combining nanny responsibilities, celebrity surroundings, romantic entanglements and family insecurity.

This is a historical story about children managing family responsibilities and practical work during a storm, while also facing uncertainty about illness, separation and an immigrant family’s future.

A reflective coming-of-age story about discovering family roots and negotiating more than one sense of home. Its strongest elements are relationships, vivid place-writing, cultural encounter and questions of identity.

A good choice for discussing how an apparently exciting journey can become exhausting and dangerous, while relationships and shared celebrations help people endure prolonged hardship.

This is a fantasy comic about belonging, hidden identity and courage, combining school life with battles against other-dimensional enemies. Its Christian storyline gives forgiveness and new life a prominent place.

A fast-moving historical crime novel with alternating viewpoints, moral uncertainty and romantic tension. Caitlin’s determination drives a search through sharply unequal New York, while William’s divided loyalties complicate ideas of justice and personal change.

This is a story-led introduction to watching birds and caring about garden wildlife. Alongside Lottie’s rescue attempt, it offers bird and migration facts and practical activities involving fat cakes and a bird bath.

This is a war-and-refugee coming-of-age novel: Kateryno leaves Kharkiv with her mother and brother, settles with a British host family, and navigates separation, new relationships and the emotional aftermath of invasion.

A thoughtful migration story combines everyday hardship with magical realism. Leelu’s loneliness, her brother’s difficulties and the family’s uncertainty make belonging feel complicated rather than instantly solved.

A visually rich, wordless migration story about leaving danger, navigating unfamiliar systems and building a life through help from strangers. Its invented world conveys alienation and uncertainty without relying on spoken language.

A visually led story about migration, courage and belonging, with no written narration to settle meaning. Its animals and expressive images invite readers to infer what leaving, travelling and arriving might involve.

This is a gentle, realistic story about a child negotiating identity and belonging after moving countries. It offers a clear starting point for discussing names, pronunciation, welcome and cultural pride.

A fast-moving dystopian adventure combines a family search with uncertain alliances, a lottery camp and an environmental mystery. Its central pull is whether belonging means escaping Earth or helping protect it.

A warm, nature-focused story about belonging and care. Roz learns by observing the island’s animals, while raising Brightbill gives the story a family relationship and a reason to explore migration, instincts and seasonal change.

This is a socially aware family story with a determined child protagonist. It combines motel life, immigrant family pressures and Mia’s writing ambitions, while presenting difficult injustices alongside friendship, support and attempts to help others.

A fast-moving fictional coming-of-age story about a Korean American teenager chasing a place in K-pop, while negotiating friends, family expectations, identity and the realities behind performance culture.

This is a socially engaged coming-of-age story about belonging, prejudice and resistance. Its emotional centre is Zara’s effort to protect her family and future while remaining true to her identity and connected to people who support her.

This is a richly illustrated journey through British myth and landscape, balancing magical stories with explanations of their historical and cultural context rather than presenting them as straightforward history.

This is a refugee journey told through Sami’s changing circumstances: a familiar life in Damascus gives way to displacement, danger and attempts to rebuild in England. Family bonds, guilt, anxiety, kindness and discrimination shape the experience.

A historically rooted survival and migration story, centred on siblings whose loyalty persists through violence, poverty, separation and an unfamiliar culture. It offers substantial scope for thinking about belonging and family responsibility.

A family roadside stop becomes a meeting point between a child's embarrassment and her parents' difficult memories. Watercress offers a compact story about family history, migration, hardship and a growing understanding between generations.

This is a richly imagined fantasy adventure about searching for a missing parent while navigating a hidden botanical world. It offers magical danger, family revelations, environmental stakes and questions about belonging.

A tender, focused true story about a child’s forced displacement and growing loneliness, balanced by the emotional significance of an unexpected gift. Its strongest offering is a humane entry point into refugee experience and kindness.