BOOK DISPLAY

Title: Our Stories Caried Us Here

Age group/School level: Secondary School, grades 8-12

School context:
Inner-city school with a high percentage of ELL students and new arrivals, many of which are refugees.

This Display is based on my current school, which I have worked at for 8 years and know quite well now. If
I worked at a different school, I would ensure to understand the school community very well before doing
any major collaborative projects (Jensen).

Purpose:
• Encourage Reading for Pleasure
o One way to encourage reading is to provide beter access to books (Brooks Kirkland
“Taming the Library Dragon”)
o Students themselves say that they are more excited to read narra�ve texts that reflect
their personal interests, that have eye-catching book characteris�cs (covers, �tles, etc.),
and based on their own choice (Edmunds and Bauserman). Books were chosen with
interes�ng covers and themes.
o Student interest important in mo�va�on, however mo�va�on was also "enhanced by
providing contexts, materials or tasks that catch students' spontaneous aten�on or
situa�onal interest" (Duke et al.)
 By crea�ng a display connected to current events and ac�vi�es at the school this
will catch their interest more than a simple display.

• To Create Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors

o Mirrors: Students need to see themselves reflected in stories (Bishop; Dugar)
o Windows: Students should be able to look into a story and see other worlds and how
they match up with their own (Bishop; Dugar)
o Sliding Glass Doors: Students should be able to slide into new worlds that are different
than their own (Bishop; Dugar; Swartz)
 Even students who are not from diverse backgrounds need to read diverse
books because it reduces stereotypes, increases the desire to engage with
people from other cultures and creates empathy (Wright; Johnson)

• Include a variety of formats:

o It’s important to include a variety of formats to encourage reading
o YA Novels & Adult Novels
o Graphic Novels
o Audiobook versions of texts – or a QR code to a Libby link with the audiobook
 Audiobooks can “enhance literary experiences for students” (Larson)
o Wordless novels
Type of Display:
Window Display so that all students can see and par�cipate as it is in a central loca�on. See info below.

Sketch of the display:

Here is a sketch of how I would use the banners, posters, and items listed below together to create the display.
Banners and posters:
Suggested �me of the year to be used:
• June – World Refugee Day 2024 is June 20th
• Could also encourage students to find a good book to read over the summer – If admin is ok with
them checking books out over the summer (Brooks Kirkland & Koechlin)

Unique physical items or materials to grab students’ aten�on:

Objects:
• Work with all collabora�ve groups to get objects/photos that represent the theme. Create labels
to explain each one and who the contributor was.
• Toy airplanes

QR Codes:
• QR code to World Refugee Day and what students can do (embedded on the poster above)
• Each �tle will have a QR code that will lead to a descrip�on/review of the book.

What this topic means to me…Refugee stories:

• “What this means topic me” – student contribu�ons made with collabora�on with English
department.

“I recommend this book because…”

• Teachers / Students in the library club could also make “I recommend this book because…”
labels. Students are more willing to read a book if a teacher shows enthusiasm for the �tle
(Merga). Students also generally find book by accessibility, rather than recommenda�on. The
en�re display will make these �tles more accessible (Edmunds).

Ac�vi�es:
• Work with the Social Jus�ce Club to create ac�vi�es on June 20th that support World Refugee
Day and the Display.

Ways to encourage/elicit student par�cipa�on:

The following three levels are based on LaGarde’s ar�cle on the three levels to make Library Displays
mater.
• Level 1: TL pre-selects the theme and a book list related to the theme

• Level 2: TL collaborates with a variety of school clubs, the English, the ELL department and the
Social Studies department to select the final 12 books. The library club is responsible for
collec�ng votes and crea�ng the display.
o If there is interest, collaborate with teachers from these departments to create inquiry
projects on the topic.
o Ideally, English departments could ask students to write a paragraph explaining what the
theme “Our Stories Caried Us Here” means to them. The best ones could be printed and
included in the display.
 • Level 3: TL collaborates with the Social Jus�ce Club to make events for World Refugee Day. This
will bring awareness to what is going on today. The Library Display poster will include a QR code
to the World Refugee Day website. Ideally, the display would also include a list of Social Jus�ce
ac�vi�es that students can par�cipate in.

Library ac�vi�es to encourage reading the books on display:

• Awards: Students vote via QR code on the specific categories. All entries will be entered into a
draw for a $50 Indigo Card gi� card. Winning books will be announced via the Library Instagram
Page. Library club can help make the categories. There is an accompanying poster. Please see
above.

How to manage the display when students take out books:

• We want to encourage students to read the books!
• Replace the book with a colour photograph of the book. The poster will have a QR code to the
Surrey Public Library website so they can put a hold on the book. See poster sample.
Choosing the �tles:
Please see the list below.

Books chosen to ensure authen�c representa�on (Khokhar)

• Represents a variety of perspec�ves
o Reflects the diversity of Canada’s religious, ethnic and cultural groups
o Experiences of individuals from diverse backgrounds
o Gender, cultural and racial inclusiveness
o Accurate representa�ons of diverse experiences
o Writen in authen�c voice

Books chosen to consider the following (Swartz)

• One group cannot represent a whole cultural experience
• Race and ethnicity should be central of multicultural lit. Consider alongside class, gender,
language and sexuality
• Multicultural books can still have stereotypes and dominant world views
• Consider multicultural texts alongside others

Books are not levelled, but driven by interest

• Readers driven by interest not level (Brooks Kirkland “Imagine”)
o Few to choose from rich collection
o Motivates to read
o Improves depth of reading
• Students should have unrestricted access to books, regardless of their reading level (Pentland;
Parrott; D’Orio; BCTLA “Position Statement”)
Pre-selected book �tles. The Library Club will choose the final 12 �tles.

Title Author Image Review link Synopsis

1. htps://www.cbc.ca/books/my- “In a land of strangers, a new family
name-is-konisola-1.5522770 can be found. On a freezing cold
winter night, nine-year-old Konisola
and her mother step off a plane in
My Name is
Alisa Siegel Canada. Their home in Nigeria is no
Kinosola
longer safe for them, and they are
taking the biggest chance of their
lives to travel across the world in
search of refuge.” (CBC)
2. htps://www.amazon.com/Paper- “In The Paper Boat, Thao’s
Boat-Refugee- signature collage art tells the
Story/dp/1771473630 wordless story of one family’s
escape from Vietnam―a journey
The Paper Boat Thao Lam
intertwined with an ant colony’s
parallel narra�ve.” (Amazon)

3. Social Jus�ce and Diversity Book “Twelve-year-old Elfina lives with

Bank (bookcentre.ca) her grandmother in Paraguay.
When a distant rela�ve offers to
have Elfina come live with her in
the city so she can atend school,
Elfina's grandmother sends her off
for a beter life. But life with her
rela�ves isn't what Elfina thought it
André Jacob would be, and soon Elfina finds
The Courage of
herself far away from home, living
Elfina
Not authen�c in Canada, and kept as a domes�c
servant by the family. School and an
educa�on are now a distant dream.
When Elfina's uncle makes
inappropriate advances at her, she
knows she must somehow find the
courage to escape and return
home. But who will help her?”
(SJDBB)
4. The Space Between Here & Now “17-year-old Aimee Roh has
by Sarah Suk | CBC Books Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a
rare condi�on that causes her to
�me travel to a moment in her life
when she smells something linked
to that memory. Her dad is
convinced she'll simply grow out of
it if she tries hard enough, but
Aimee's fear of vanishing at random
has kept her from living a normal
life.
When Aimee disappears for nine
hours into a memory of her
estranged mom — a moment
Aimee has never remembered
The Space
before — she becomes distraught.
Between Here Sarah Suk
Not only was this her longest
and Now
disappearance yet, but the memory
doesn't match up with the story of
how her mom le� — at least, not
the version she's always heard from
her dad.
Desperate for answers, Aimee
travels to Korea, where she
unravels the mystery of her
memories, the truth about her
mother, and the reason she keeps
returning to certain moments in her
life. Along the way, she realizes
she'll need to reconcile her past in
order to save her
present.” (From Quill Tree Books)
5. Reuni�ng with Strangers by “When five-year-old Monolith is
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio | CBC taken from the Philippines to live
Books with his mother in Canada, he
immediately lashes out. Unable or
unwilling to speak, he atacks her
and destroys his new home.
Everyone wants to know why —
and everyone has a theory. But
unlike the solid certainty his name
suggests, the answer isn't so
simple.
From a cliffside town in the
Reuni�ng With Jennilee Austria
Tagaytay highlands of the
Strangers Bonifacio
Philippines, to the Filipino
communi�es in the desert of
Osoyoos, the Arc�c world of Iqaluit,
the suburbs of southern Ontario,
Sarnia's Chemical Valley, Montréal's
Côte-des-Neiges, and Toronto's
Litle Manila, Austria-Bonifacio
takes readers into the kaleidoscope
of the Filipino diaspora, uncovering
the displacement, estrangement,
resilience and healing that happen
behind closed doors.” (CBC)
6. Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen | “Vietnamese refugees Debbie and
CBC Books Phil Tran have made a good life for
themselves in Toronto, but their
landlord has just jacked up the rent
of their family-run nail salon,
Sunshine Nails, and it's way more
Sunshine Nails Mai Nguyen than they can afford. When Take
Ten, a glamorous chain offering a
more luxurious salon experience,
moves into the neighborhood, the
Tran family is terrified of losing
their business—and the community
they've built around them.” (CBC)
7. The Syrian Ladies Benevolent “Masterfully tracing the deep roots
Society by Chris�ne Es�ma | CBC of the Arab immigrant experience,
Books these interlocking stories follow an
Arab family as they flee the Middle
East in the nineteenth century,
setle in Montreal in the twen�eth,
The Syrian and face the collision between
ladies tradi�on and modernity in the
Chris�ne Es�ma
Benevolent twenty-first. This family includes
Society trailblazing Lebanese freedom
fighters, undercover opera�ves in
World War II, and brave Syrian
refugees trying to find their place in
Canadian society. This line of daring
women culminates in Azurée.”
(CBC)
8. Landbridge: Life in Fragments by “In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her
Y-Dang Troeung | CBC Books family were among the last of the
60,000 refugees from Cambodia
that then-Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau pledged to relocate to
Canada. As the final arrivals, their
landing was widely documented in
newspapers, with photographs of
the PM shaking Y-Dang's father's
Landbridge Y-Dang Troeung hand, reaching out to pat baby Y-
Dang's head. Forty years later, in
her brilliant, astonishing book, Y-
Dang returns to this moment, and
to many others before and a�er, to
explore the tension between that
public narra�ve of happy "arrival,"
and the mul�ple, o�en hidden
truths of what happened to the
people in her family.” (CBC)
9. The Cricket War by Tho Pham “A gripping story of a boy's escape
and Sandra McTavish | CBC from Communist Vietnam by boat,
Books based on the author's own
The Cricket Tho Pham & experience.” (CBC)
Wars Sanra McTavish

10. The Boat People | CBC Books “By the winner of The Journey
Prize, and inspired by a real
incident, The Boat People is a
gripping and morally complex novel
about a group of refugees who
The Boat People Sharon Bala
survive a perilous ocean voyage to
reach Canada — only to face the
threat of deporta�on and
accusa�ons of terrorism in their
new land.” (CBC)
11. The Boy on the Beach by Tima “An in�mate and poignant memoir
Kurdi | CBC Books about the family of Alan Kurdi —
the young Syrian boy who became
the global emblem for the
The Boy on the
Tima Kurdi desperate plight of millions of
Beach
Syrian refugees — and of the many
extraordinary journeys the Kurdis
have taken, spanning countries and
con�nents.” (CBC)
12. Ru | CBC Books “In vignetes that shi� back and
forth between past and
present, Ru tells the story of a
young woman forced to leave her
Saigon home during the Vietnam
Ru Kim Thúy War. In spare, luminous prose, Kim
Thúy traces the woman's journey
from childhood in an affluent
Saigon neighbourhood to youth in a
crowded Malaysian refugee camp
and then to Quebec, where she
 struggles to fit in — all aspects of
the author's own life story.” (CBC)
13. The Illegal | CBC Books “Lawrence Hill's The Illegal is a
compelling story that examines the
plight of refugees who risk
everything to start over in a country
that doesn't want them. A�er his
Lawrence Hill
father is killed by a dictator's thugs,
The Illegal
runner Keita Ali flees his homeland
*Not authen�c
and goes into hiding in a country
known as Freedom State, where his
presence is illegal and he must go
underground to save his own life.”
(CBC)
14. Intolerable | CBC Books “Part coming-out memoir, part
contemporary Middle Eastern
history and part cultural
analysis, Intolerable is Kamal Al-
Solaylee's chronicle of his painful
family history. Al-Solaylee is well
known to Canadians for his
journalism and cultural cri�cism —
he was the theatre cri�c at the
Kamal Al- Globe and Mail for many years. But
Intolerable
Solaylee he was quiet about his background
un�l wri�ng Intolerable. In the
book, he describes growing up in
the Middle East at a �me of
enormous poli�cal strife and
religious intolerance, coming to
terms with his iden�ty as a gay man
and escaping to get an educa�on
and build a life for himself in
England and then in Canada.” (CBC)
15. Amazon.com: Sea Prayer: “A short, powerful, illustrated book
9780525539094: Hosseini, writen by beloved novelist Khaled
Khaled: Books Hosseini in response to the current
refugee crisis, Sea Prayer is
composed in the form of a leter,
from a father to his son, on the eve
of their journey. Watching over his
Sea Prayer Khaled Hosseini
sleeping son, the father reflects on
the dangerous sea-crossing that lies
before them. It is also a vivid
portrait of their life in Homs, Syria,
before the war, and of that city's
swi� transforma�on from a home
into a deadly war zone.” (CBC)
16. Enrique's Journey (The Young “Adapted for young people, this
Adult Adapta�on): The True Story edi�on of Enrique’s Journey is
of a Boy Determined to Reunite writen by Sonia Nazario and based
with His Mother: Nazario, Sonia: on the adult book of the same
9780385743280: Books - name. It is the true story of
Amazon.ca Enrique, a teenager from Honduras,
who sets out on a journey, braving
hardship and peril, to find his
Enrique's mother, who had no choice but to
Journey (The leave him when he was a child and
Young Adult go to the United States in search of
Adapta�on): work. Enrique’s story will bring to
The True Story light the daily struggles of migrants,
Sonia Nazario
of a Boy legal and otherwise, and the
Determined to complicated choices they face
Reunite with His simply trying to survive and provide
Mother for the basic needs of their families.
The issues seamlessly interwoven
into this gripping nonfic�on work
for young people are perfect for
common core discussion. Includes
an 8-page photo insert, as well as
an epilogue that describes what has
happened to Enrique and his family
since the adult edition was
published.” (AMAZON)
17. Amazon.com: From Here: “In her coming-of-age memoir,
9780593354452: Mufleh, Luma: refugee advocate Luma Mufleh
Books writes of her tumultuous journey to
reconcile her iden�ty as a gay
Muslim woman and a proud Arab-
turned-American refugee.”
From Here Luma Mufleh (Amazon)

18. Amazon.com: Ink Knows No “This collec�on of sixty-four poems

Borders: Poems of the Immigrant by poets who come from all over
and Refugee Experience: the world shares the experience of
9781609809072: Vecchione, first- and second-genera�on young
Patrice, Raymond, Alyssa: Books adult immigrants and refugees.
Whether it’s cultural and language
differences, homesickness, social
exclusion, racism, stereotyping, or
ques�ons of iden�ty, the Dreamers,
Patrice
immigrants, and refugee poets
Ink Knows No Vecchione and
included here encourage readers to
Borders Alyssa Raymond
honor their roots as well as explore
(Ed)
new paths, offering empathy and
hope. Many of the struggles
described are faced by young
people everywhere: isola�on, self-
doubt, confusion, and emo�onal
disloca�on. But also joy, discovery,
safety, and family. This is a hopeful,
beau�ful, and meaningful book for
any reader.” (Amazon)
19. Amazon.com: Somos como las “An eloquent and timely plea for
nubes / We Are Like the Clouds: understanding refugees.
9781554988495: Argueta, Jorge,
Ruano, Alfonso, Amado, Elisa: Why are young people leaving their
Libros country to walk to the United
Somos como las
States to seek a new, safe home?
nubes / We Are Jorge Argueta
Over 100,000 such children have
Like the Clouds
left Central America. This book of
poetry helps us to understand why
and what it is like to be them.”
(Amazon)

20. Amazon.com: The Wai�ng Place: “An unflinching look at ten young
When Home Is Lost and a New lives suspended outside of time—
Dina One Not Yet Found: and bravely proceeding anyway—
Nayeri (Author), 9781536213621: Nayeri, Dina, inside the Katsikas refugee camp in
The Wai�ng Miralpeix, Anna Bosch: Books Greece.
Anna Bosch
Place
Miralpeix (Illustr
ator) Every war, famine, and flood spits
out survivors.” (Amazon)

21. We Are Displaced: My Journey “Nobel Peace Prize winner and New
and Stories from Refugee Girls York Times bestselling author
Around the World : Yousafzai, Malala Yousafzai turns the faceless
Malala: Amazon.ca: Books statistics and endless news stories
about displacement into real
people—introducing a small
We Are Malala fraction of the millions worldwide
Displaced Yousafzai who have fled home in this
powerful and "stirring" (New York
Times) account.” (Amazon)
22. The Best We Could Do: An “The national bestseller and
Illustrated Memoir: Bui, Thi: American Book Award Winner, The
9781419718779: Amazon.com: Best We Could Do, is an intimate
Books and poignant graphic novel
portraying one family’s journey
The Best We from war-torn Vietnam, from debut
Thi Bui author Thi Bui.” (Amazon)
Could Do

Graphic Novel

23. Amazon.com: Manuelito: “Thirteen-year-old Manuelito is a

9781773212661: Amado, Elisa, gentle boy who lives with his family
Urias, Abraham: Books in a tiny village in the Guatemalan
countryside. But life is far from
idyllic: PACs―armed civil
patrol―are a constant presence in
the streets, and terrifying
memories of the country’s war
linger in the villagers’ collective
Manuelito Elisa Amado conscience. Things deteriorate
further when government-backed
drug gangs arrive and take control
of the village. Fearing their son will
be forced to join a gang,
Manuelito’s parents make the
desperate decision to send him to
live with his aunt in America.”
(Amazon)
24. Amazon.com: Our Stories Carried "Eleven storytellers chronicle their
Us Here: 9781949523171: journeys from places all over the
Rozman, Tea, Vang, Julie, world—including Guatemala, Chad,
Kaczynski, Tom, Hinojosa, Ana, El- Vietnam, and Kazakhstan—to the
Atar, Ashraf, Aguirre, Camilo, Lin, United States.
Cori, Nyunai Ngan, Gérard,
Ibrahim, Hamid, Centeno, Mike, Each story compellingly details a
gao, sunshine, El Rassi, Toufic, variety of experiences the
Powell, Nate, Bui, Thi: Books individual immigrant or refugee
had, highlighting differences
between stories that too often are
lumped together or not given
an opportunity to be heard. Each
Our Stories Tea Rozman storyteller was paired with an
Caried us Here: (ed); Julie Vang illustrator from a similar
A Graphic Novel (ed), Tom linguistic and cultural heritage. The
Anthology Kaczynski (Ill) thoughtfulness of the matches
shines through, as every
panel authentically conveys the
narrators’ poignant and emotional
memories, highlighting the
beauty of their homelands and the
cultures they still identify with. The
narratives show the struggles
and triumphs of acclimating to a
new language, culture, and
worldview as well as dealing
with obstacles like racism and
microaggressions...” (Amazon)
25. The Arrival: Tan, Shaun, Tan, A wordless novel depicting a
Shaun: 9780439895293: Books - father’s sole journey to make a new
Amazon.ca life for his family who joins later.
(Amazon)

The Arrival Shaun Tan

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