A shelf for the two very different reasons a family lands here: a child who saw something frightening on the news and needs it made human, or a child who has a new classmate who left a war and wants to understand what that means. These are books about fleeing war and living displaced, camps, borders, the crossing itself, not about settling into a new school, which is a different shelf. Pick the one that fits your child's age and how much they can hold. The gentlest is a picture book about a girl and a pebble in a camp. The heaviest is a novel where children die on the journey. What's inside each one is spelled out below, so you can choose before you read rather than after.
Think of this as a shelf, and sort it by why you're here. If your child saw something on the news and is frightened, the job is to make it human and survivable, so start with Lubna and Pebble, the gentlest, and go only as far as your child can hold. If your child has a new classmate who left a war and you want them to understand what that child carried, The Journey shows the flight, Four Feet, Two Sandals shows the years of waiting in a camp, and Stepping Stones puts a specific war, Syria, in front of them. The two novels are for an older child ready to sit with the fuller weight. No need to read them all; pick the one that matches the child in front of you.