ABSTRACT
Since the millennium there have been a plethora of texts about the refugee experience for children and young people across the Western world, with a recent trend toward increasingly grim and explicit depictions of the suffering of refugee children. There is an emergent field of academic study questioning the motivations of authors, the messages of such stories, and the images of refugees proffered by the books, with RefugeeCrit providing a useful framework for critiquing these texts. In this chapter I apply such a lens to examine in depth two middle grade/young adult texts, “The Bone Sparrow” by Zara Fraillion (2016) and “Boy, Everywhere” by A. M. Dassu (2020), both of which have received considerable public acclaim.
