The cricket war / by Thọ Phạm and Sandra McTavish.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto : Kids Can Press, 2023Description: 160 pages : map ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781525306556
- 1525306553
- Boats and boating -- Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction -- Juvenile fiction
- Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction
- Refugees -- Vietnam -- Juvenile fiction
- Best friends -- Juvenile fiction
- Brothers -- Juvenile fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Vietnam -- History -- 1975- -- Juvenile fiction
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | PHAM THO | Available | 33111011090756 | |||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | New | PHAM THO | Available | 33111011192107 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
It's 1980, and 11-year-old Tho Pham lives with his family in South Vietnam. He spends his afternoons playing soccer and cricket fighting with his friends, but life is slowly changing under the Communists. His parents are worried, and Tho knows the Communist army will soon knock on their door to make his brother, and then him, join them. Still, it shocks him when his father says that arrangements have been made for him to leave Vietnam by boat, immediately. Tho tries to be brave as he sets out on a harrowing journey toward the unknown. Co-authors Tho Pham and Sandra McTavish, childhood friends, have loosely based this historical fiction novel on Tho's real-life experience as one of the Vietnamese Boat People, and includes many factual details from his journey on the South China Sea and in a Philippine refugee camp. Depictions of pirate attacks, hunger, and loneliness make for a riveting survival story, sure to elicit empathy for refugees. Eventually adopted by a Canadian elementary school teacher, Tho's story is ultimately one of hope, courage, and resilience. It's a valuable resource for social studies lessons on Asian culture and history and on immigration.
"As a twelve-year-old boy growing up in South Vietnam, Thọ has heard of other boys disappearing from time to time, smuggled out of the country so they wouldn't have to be conscripted into the Communist army. But Thọ is too young to worry about any of that. He spends his afternoons cricket fighting and playing soccer with his friends. Until one day, he finds out that his parents have arranged for him to leave the country -- alone. What follows is a harrowing journey on the South China Sea, as Thọ encounters pirate attacks, hunger and loneliness, not knowing where he will end up or if he will ever see his family again. Based on real-life events, The Cricket War is a touching story of hope, courage and resilience in the face of tragedy."-- Provided by publisher.