When Clouds Touch Us
When Clouds Touch Us

Author: Thanhhà Lai

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2023-05-30

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0702268054

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The stunning sequel to the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling verse novel Inside Out & Back Again. It' s been two years since Hà and her family arrived in Alabama as refugees from the Vi?t Nam War. They' ve worked hard to make a life for themselves in America, but it hasn' t come easy. Hà has only just begun to feel settled when Mother decides that the family will move to Texas for a new job. Hà knows how hard starting over is and doesn' t want to do it again. But sometimes even an unwanted change can bring opportunity, new friends and a place to call home. A lyrical and compelling story of upheaval, growth and love.

Inside Out & Back Again
Inside Out & Back Again

Author: Thanhha Lai

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0702251178

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Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.

Butterfly Yellow
Butterfly Yellow

Author: Thanhhà Lai

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0062229230

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Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sánchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again. 4 starred reviews! In the final days of the Việt Nam War, Hằng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determined to find a way to safety in America. In a split second, Linh is ripped from her arms—and Hằng is left behind in the war-torn country. Six years later, Hằng has made the brutal journey from Việt Nam and is now in Texas as a refugee. She doesn’t know how she will find the little brother who was taken from her until she meets LeeRoy, a city boy with big rodeo dreams, who decides to help her. Hằng is overjoyed when she reunites with Linh. But when she realizes he doesn’t remember her, their family, or Việt Nam, her heart is crushed. Though the distance between them feels greater than ever, Hằng has come so far that she will do anything to bridge the gap.

Listen, Slowly
Listen, Slowly

Author: Thanhhà Lai

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0062229206

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This remarkable and bestselling novel from Thanhha Lai, author of the National Book Award–winning and Newbery Honor Book Inside Out & Back Again, follows a young girl as she learns the true meaning of family. Listen, Slowly is a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year! A California girl born and raised, Mai can’t wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai’s parents think this trip will be a great opportunity for their out-of-touch daughter to learn more about her culture. But to Mai, those are their roots, not her own. Vietnam is hot, smelly, and the last place she wants to be. Besides barely speaking the language, she doesn’t know the geography, the local customs, or even her distant relatives. To survive her trip, Mai must find a balance between her two completely different worlds. Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia and Linda Sue Park, Listen, Slowly is an irresistibly charming and emotionally poignant tale about a girl who discovers that home and culture, family and friends, can all mean different things.

Cloud and Wallfish
Cloud and Wallfish

Author: Anne Nesbet

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2016-09-02

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0763688037

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"Noah Keller has a pretty normal life until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March ... As Noah, now 'Jonah Brown,' and his parents head behind the Iron Curtain into East Berlin, the rules and secrets begin to pile up so quickly that he can hardly keep track of the questions bubbling up inside him: who, exactly, is listening--and why?"

Clouds
Clouds

Author: Laura Sobiech

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781400226726

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A Mother's Prayer, a Son's Goodbye, and a Song that Moved the World

Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Author: Mark I. West

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1666938882

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Scholars in the field of children’s literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of “liminal spaces” around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading children’s literature scholars. The contributors in this collection take a wide variety of approaches to their explorations of liminal spaces in children’s and young adult literature. Some discuss how children’s books portray the liminal nature of physical spaces, such as the children’s room in a library. Others deal with more abstract portrayals, such as the imaginary space where Max goes to escape the reality of his bedroom in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. All of the contributors, however, provide keen insights into how liminal spaces figure in children’s and young adult literature.

Anne & Alpheus, 1842–1882
Anne & Alpheus, 1842–1882

Author: Joe Survant

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 1996-05-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1610750209

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Chosen by Rachel Hadas as the winner of the  Arkansas Poetry Award, Anne & Alpheus: 1842–1882 is a compelling duet of monologues between a frontier man and woman surviving the hardships and recording the small triumphs of life in rural nineteenth-century Kentucky. Ambitious in breadth and scope, these poems chart the loves and losses of early marriage, the terrors of civilian life during the Civil War, and the universal sorrows of aging, loneliness, and death. Through the distinct voices of Anne and Alpheus Waters, Joe Survant has fashioned a collection with all the sweep of a novel, all the dramatic intensity, poem by poem, of short fiction, and all the earthy, human lyricism of the dramatic monologue. These poems take us into the tobacco sheds, put us behind the plow, let us smell the soil, and carry us under the stars where Anne and Alpheus walked.