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Alabama History 1951- Fiction Emigration and immigration Fiction Immigrants Fiction Immigrants Juvenile fiction New Orleans (La.) Fiction Novels in verse Vietnam History 1971-1980 Fiction Vietnamese American women Fiction Vietnamese Americans Fiction Vietnamese Americans Juvenile fictionLai, Thanhha.
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC LAILai, Thanhha
Summary: A novel in verse inspired by the author's experience follows Hà and her family, refugees from the Vietnam War, as they move to Texas for a new job, and despite not wanting to start over again, Hà discovers unwanted change can bring a good opportunity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAILai, Thanhha.
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Lai, Thanhha.
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LAICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Lai 2011Nguyen, Eric
Summary: "When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. Over time, Huong realizes she will never see Cong again....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Nguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: Discovering a family heirloom that her mother may have received from Laura Ingalls Wilder, PhD graduate Lee Lien explores the tenuous connection between her ancestors and the famous pioneer author only to discover a trail of clues that lead to fateful encounters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUNguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: Van and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents' Vietnamese legacy is to them both. When their father, Mr. Luong, summons them home for his American citizenship party, Van and Linny find themselves communing about their past, their late mother, their father's obsession with his Luong Arm invention for short people, even the irony of their romantic straits.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009