By Alan Gratz Late in WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED (Dial Books for Young Readers, 264 pp., $20.99; ages 9 to 12), 17-year-old Omar Mohamed is asked to write a paper on “What It Means to Be a Refugee ...

Omar Mohamed, along with the Newbery honor-winning children’s author Victoria Jamieson, told his story in “When Stars Are Scattered,” a children’s graphic novel released last month from ...

Sponsor Message The title of your book, When Stars Are Scattered, refers to the comfort you felt looking at the night sky at Dadaab. You saw yourself and the other refugees as stars looking for a ...