Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

If you have trouble finishing a book, this is a good one to start your reading travel with.  Told in free verse, it is told in immediately accessible first person narrative. It reads easily and moves quickly through Kek's story.

Kek is a young Sudanese refugee whose story starts (for us) when he arrives in the U.S.  He is bewildered by our weather and the way we live, but shows amazing hope and perseverance as he learns to live in a strange world...

This is a beautifully written story sharing a memorable view of an outsider struggling to find his path.