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Inside Out & Back Once again

by Thanhhà Lai

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    • Grades: four - 7
    • Ages: 9 - 12
    Nearly Reading Levels

    Awards:

    National Book Award ; Newbery Honour

    • Format: Paperback Volume

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Based on the author's own childhood and written in free-verse poems, this unforgettable story captures a fierce girl'south struggles to discover her place in her family unit, in her new home, and in the globe.

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Things are changing in Hà's world equally the Vietnam War comes closer and closer to her home in Saigon. Her friends and neighbors are leaving, her oldest blood brother is speaking out against the N, and the likelihood of being reunited with her father—who has been missing in action for nine years—is growing dimmer.

When Saigon falls in 1975, Hà and her family unit are forced to flee on a navy send and, afterward spending months in refugee camps, end up moving to Alabama. In that location, Hà struggles to deal with everything from learning the language and customs to handling the bullies who make fun of her at school. Volition she ever experience at home in this strange new land? And volition she ever see her begetter over again?

This compelling story offers a poignant look at one girl'southward journeying from Vietnam to America.

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Product Details

    • Grades: 4 - 7
    • Ages: nine - 12
  • Production Type: Book
  • Page Count: 272 pages
  • Dimensions: v i/four" x 7 5/8"
  • Language: English
  • Subject & Themes: Immigration, Asia, The Vietnam & Korean Wars, Prejudice & Racism, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
  • ISBN xiii: 978-0-545-44785-0