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A historical adventure about starting again after disaster, building friendships and trying to protect a new home from moving sand. Expect family upheaval, school conflict and an ending whose precise emotional shape is unclear.

This is an informational account of one family's displacement, return and continuing difficulties, set alongside facts about Afghanistan and its people. It also points towards helping refugees who lack permanent homes.

This is an unusual, structurally adventurous story about a refugee rebuilding his life while several other narratives unfold around him. It combines science fiction, historical material, dark humour and emotionally serious questions about survival and disclosure.

This is an adventure about two sisters facing repeated bereavement, separation from familiar homes and an uncertain journey. The sisters’ resourcefulness and choices drive the available premise.

This is a tender story about finding comfort amid displacement, then recognising another child's loneliness. Its emotional centre is Lubna's difficult decision about a treasured object.

This is a serious, emotionally intense story about forced movement, family separation and trying to belong in an unfamiliar country. Its unhappy ending may matter to readers who need preparation for difficult material.

A tense historical survival story centred on two sisters, with vivid attention to language, place and the aftermath of political collapse. It combines danger and emotional uncertainty with questions about belonging and self-determination.

A playful, high-energy quest turns familiar ideas upside down. Its central appeal is the combination of gaming-style adventure, colourful illustrations, unusual allies and a clear goal: return to the real world.

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 short, visually expressive story about a newcomer, suspicion and the possibility of belonging. Its emotional centre is the contrast between what the animals assume and what they learn about the stranger’s past.

A reflective picture book about leaving home and adjusting to an unfamiliar journey. Its mother’s reassuring voice offers steadiness, while the illustrations and repeated questions leave room to notice uncertainty, loss, hope and the child’s perspective.

This is a visually led story about forced movement, family resilience and the search for safety. It may help children consider refugees as people with fears, relationships and hopes, rather than as an abstract issue.

A poetic picture book follows a girl whose ordinary school day is shattered by war. Alone, she travels through dangerous displacement before encountering a school that initially excludes her. The story presents destruction, bereavement and possible drowning indirectly, then turns towards welcome, solidarity and hope through children’s practical kindness.

This is a wartime survival adventure combining danger, horses and displaced children. Its central appeal is resourceful young protagonists protecting vulnerable beings, while the historical setting brings serious questions about war, loss and responsibility.

This is a fast-moving wartime escape story centred on protecting horses and people. Its strongest features are peril, courage and companionship, while the historical setting gives the adventure serious emotional weight.

This offers an atmospheric fantasy adventure rooted in Irish folklore, while following a family adjusting to a move. Expect mysteries, mythical possibilities, sibling and cousin relationships, and a child drawn towards danger.

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.

This is a story about displacement, responsibility and belonging, with ballet providing a meaningful connection between Aya’s past and her emerging life in England. Friendship and practical kindness sit alongside worry about family, paperwork and whether home can be rebuilt.

A good choice for shared reading about family history, friendship and how the past shapes present relationships. Its historical strand offers substantial discussion, while the school setting gives children an immediate way into questions about belonging and courage.

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.

Expect an imaginative, creature-filled adventure centred on finding sanctuary. Friendship, loyalty, courage and environmental loss sit alongside danger, threatening creatures and occasional insulting language.

A child’s perspective makes refugee experience, antisemitism and changing countries personal and discussable. Family solidarity and curiosity sit alongside historically grounded accounts of persecution and loss.

A thoughtful wartime story about displacement, difficult loyalties and the stories people tell to explain frightening events. It offers an accessible surface narrative alongside deeper questions about guilt, power, family conflict and how childhood experiences can endure.

This is a tender story about settling somewhere new while carrying memories of the past. It combines sadness with hope, showing how familiar relationships and community support can matter during change.

A curious fantasy about Polly Flint’s unusual way of seeing, and her involvement with people caught outside their proper time. Expect mystery, strangeness and an imaginative hidden world.

This is a compassionate story about displacement, sibling connection and different responses to upheaval. Its dark imagery and lyrical language make room for fear, loss, uncertainty, hope and courage without revealing every detail.

This is a moving family journey shaped by war, displacement and hope. Its strongest offering is the combination of a child’s viewpoint, expressive artwork and a closing emphasis on love, gratitude and what families carry with them.

This is an emotionally serious historical story that helps readers encounter Partition through three children’s friendships and families. Expect cultural and religious detail, danger and loss, alongside courage, human connection and an unresolved sense of what may happen next.

This is an action-led coming-of-age story about grief, courage and belonging. Siki challenges expected gender roles while training as a warrior, and her personal questions connect with the wider struggle to protect Apache land and community.

A Gothic supernatural romance about belonging, secrecy and divided loyalties. Bianca’s arrival at Evernight brings social unease, attraction and danger; the central mysteries eventually challenge what she—and the reader—believes about the characters.

A reflective story about a young person navigating embarrassment, family responsibilities and first love while her community faces forced relocation. Expect character-focused writing, social tension and a strong sense of place rather than constant action.

This offers an expansive adventure about children navigating an unfamiliar island, with suspense, secrets, strange companions and a strong sense of place. Its appeal lies in combining recognisable family life with mythic fantasy and an unfolding mystery.

A family move becomes a lens for exploring belonging, cultural identity and relationships across a divided setting. Liyana’s viewpoint connects private family change with wider tensions involving Jews and Palestinians.

A reflective story about a community lost beneath a reservoir, balancing affection for home with the pain of forced departure. Its illustrations and poetic voice focus attention on memory, place and change.

A wartime story about first love, separation and survival. Esteya and Skizi’s relationship sits alongside political upheaval, family betrayal and the urgent need to escape and reunite.

A wartime story about a child seeking freedom and family after being kept indoors because of her twisted foot. Ada’s new life brings learning, trust and danger, while the possibility of returning to her mother remains unresolved.

A tender story about upheaval, belonging and hope, centred on Gregory’s move away from home. School, art and an unexpectedly direct friendship offer points of connection as he faces difficult parts of his past.

A tense school story about displacement, friendship and confronting a powerful bully, with Poe trying to challenge a system that allows harmful pranks to continue.