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Inside out & back again / Thanhha Lai.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: First editionDescription: 262 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780061962783
  • 0061962783
  • 9781451742992
  • 1451742991
  • 9780061962790
  • 0061962791
  • 9780329926229
  • 0329926225
  • 9780606271264
  • 0606271260
Other title:
  • Inside out and back again
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 2012
  • National Book Award winner, Young People's Literature, 2011.
  • Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor, 2012
Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction LAI THANHHA Available 2012 Newbery Honor Book 33111011223654
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Lai Tha Available 2012 Newbery Honor Book 33111006782631
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Inside Out and Back Again is a #1 New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award!

Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee--fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama--this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye view of family and immigration.

For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, Hà discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food . . . and the strength of her very own family.

This moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing received four starred reviews, including one from Kirkus which proclaimed it "enlightening, poignant, and unexpectedly funny." An author's note explains how and why Thanhha Lai translated her personal experiences into Hà's story.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

Ages 8-12.

Newbery Honor Book, 2012

National Book Award winner, Young People's Literature, 2011.

Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor, 2012

"Typography by Ray Shappell"--Title page verso.

800 Lexile.

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