Inside Out and Back Again
A Young Adult, Historical, Realistic Fiction book. Mother warns how we act todayforetells the whole year Thanhha...
No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama. For all the ten years of her life, HÀ 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. 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, 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,...
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This was my first novel to read that was written entirely in poetry. This was such s beautifully insightful book. The concise language and vivid images were so helpful to understanding the struggles of refugee families under any circumstance (not just fleeing Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War). I love reading books like this to my... "All my life I've wondered what it's like to know someone for forever then poof he's gone." Inside Out & Back Again, PP. 175-176 Juvenile novels about refugees from war-torn countries may often seem to proceed along similar plot lines, but somehow their ability to deeply affect us is never diminished by this fact. Though individual... "No one would believe mebut at times/I would choosewartime in Saigonoverpeacetime in Alabama."This prize winning book is powerful and sad. A young girl named Kim Ha has to leave Vietnam during the war and ends up in the southern State of Alabama.To begin with, Kim Ha's father has been MIA for 10 years, and after they leave for America...
