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      2019., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F WIL   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Series Title: The Sixties Trilogy   Volume: book 3Summary Note: "The story of two cousins who must take a road trip across America in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Full of photos, music, and figures of the time, this is the story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times"--
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      2008, Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic]   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: As a storm sweeps in, Tinh's father tells him to tie up their fishing boat but the storm scares him and he runs away, but when the damage to the boat is discovered, Tinh realizes what he must do.
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      [2023]., Kids Can Press Call No: FIC PHA    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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      [2017]., Primary, Picture Window Books, a capstone imprint Call No: [Fic]    Availability:2 of 2     At Location(s) Summary Note: Acclaimed poet Bao Phi delivers a powerful, honest glimpse into a relationship between father and son---and between cultures, old and new.
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      2018., Pre-adolescent, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press Call No: HISTORICAL F ELL    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1970 Vancouver, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her best friend, Dawn, are keen to avoid the pitfalls of adolescence. Couldn't they just skip teenhood altogether, along with its annoying focus on boyfriends and obsessing about marriage? Couldn't one just learn about life from Jane Austen and spend the days eating breakfast at noon, and go to the upcoming outdoor hippie music festival? But life becomes more complicated when the girls meet a draft dodger who comes to live with Charlotte's Quaker family. Tom Ed expands Charlotte's horizons as they discuss everything from war to civil disobedience to women's liberation. Grappling with exhilarating and disturbing new ideas, Charlotte finds it harder and harder to stick to her unteen philosophy, and to see eye to eye with Dawn.
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      2018., Pre-adolescent, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press Call No: [Fic]    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1970 Vancouver, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her best friend, Dawn, are keen to avoid the pitfalls of adolescence. Couldn't they just skip teenhood altogether, along with its annoying focus on boyfriends and obsessing about marriage? Couldn't one just learn about life from Jane Austen and spend the days eating breakfast at noon, and go to the upcoming outdoor hippie music festival? But life becomes more complicated when the girls meet a draft dodger who comes to live with Charlotte's Quaker family. Tom Ed expands Charlotte's horizons as they discuss everything from war to civil disobedience to women's liberation. Grappling with exhilarating and disturbing new ideas, Charlotte finds it harder and harder to stick to her unteen philosophy, and to see eye to eye with Dawn.
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      [2018]., Pre-adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: HISTORICAL F HOL    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1971, twelve-year-old Lucy Rossi's dad returns from Vietnam after losing part of his arm, and her whole family must learn to adjust to a new dynamic, but Lucy's friend Milo unknowingly helps her navigate through this difficult time of fear and uncertainty to realize she is much tougher than she thought.
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      [2008]., Adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic]   Edition: Special anniversary edition.    Availability:3 of 3     At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
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      2012, 2013., Adolescent, Scholastic Call No: FIC LYNCH    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
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      2007., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic]   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1977, as twelve-year-old Theo struggles with a science class project on space exploration, questions emerge about why his father never returned from Vietnam and why Theo's mother has been keeping secrets for many years.
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      [2019]., Juvenile, Yellow Jacket Call No: HISTORICAL F RUS   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Lam, her brothers, and other ethnic Chinese flee Vietnam in 1979, embarking on a long and perilous journey toward a refugee camp, where Lam finds new hope and happiness. Includes historical notes, glossary, and pronunciation guide.
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      c2011., Adolescent, Scholastic Call No: F Lyn   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Series Title: Vietnam   Volume: bk. 1.Summary Note: Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
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      [2015]., Creston Books, LLC Call No: [Fic]    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: In a cozy seaside house in Vietnam, a mother cooks, a child naps, and a cricket paints the story of a fisherman who longs to return home to his family.
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      -- Inside out and back again
      [2012]., Pre-adolescent, Recorded Books Call No: RB FIC LAI   Edition: Unabridged.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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      -- Inside out and back again.
      2017, 2011., General, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION LAI   Edition: Harper Classic edition.    Availability:15 of 15     At Location(s) Summary Note: Winner of the 2011 National Book Prize for Young People's Literature and 2012 Newbery Medal Honor Book, this stunning and engaging verse novel will captivate readers of all ages. Moving to America turns Ha's life inside out. For all the ten years of her life, Ha 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. Ha and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, Ha 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.
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      2020., Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F WIL   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.