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By Lai, Thanhha[2019]., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HISTORICAL F LAI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In the final days of the Viet Nam War, Hang 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 Hang is left behind in the war-torn country. Six years later, Hang has made the brutal journey from Viet 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. Hang is overjoyed when she reunites with Linh. But when she realizes he doesn't remember her, their family, or Viet Nam, her heart is crushed. Though the distance between them feels greater than ever, Hang has come so far that she will do anything to bridge the gap"--From the publisher's web site.
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By Lai, Thanhha2020., Juvenile, Harper Call No: Historical Fic Lai Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: At the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of children were airlifted out and taken to America as refugees. Hang and her three-year-old brother Linh were to be two of those children, but Hang was deemed too old and denied a spot on the helicopter. Linh, however, was torn away from her and taken to family in Texas. Now eighteen, Hang travels to Texas to find her brother but is devastated to learn that he does not remember her or Vietnam, and has no interest in either. Along with an aspiring cowboy named LeeRoy, Hang gets a job at a ranch and tries to reconnect with her brother with LeeRoy's help.
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By Lai, ThanhhaÃ2019., Adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In the final days of the Vietnam War, Hang 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 Hang is left behind in the war-torn country. Six years later, Hang has made the brutal journey from Vietnam 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. Hang is overjoyed when she reunites with Linh. But when she realizes he doesn't remember her, their family, or Vietnam, her heart is crushed. Though the distance between them feels farther than ever, Hang has come so far that she will do anything to bridge the gap"--OCLC.
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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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[2023]., Primary, Levine Querido Call No: E Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon's surrender to the North Vietnamese Army. Kristen Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of the decision to flee from the perspective of someone eight years old; Playing a game of space-explorers to protect herself and her sister's eyes from tear gas; sneaking a stuffed animal into the family's overstuffed suitcase for comfort"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2023]., Primary, Levine Querido Call No: E GIA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon's surrender to the North Vietnamese Army. Kristen Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of the decision to flee from the perspective of someone eight years old; Playing a game of space-explorers to protect herself and her sister's eyes from tear gas; sneaking a stuffed animal into the family's overstuffed suitcase for comfort"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2023]., Adolescent, Crown Books Call No: HISTORICAL F HOA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.
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[2015]., Adolescent, Flux Call No: Historical FIC Zeiss Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai is forced to flee to a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where she must navigate numerous hardships while waiting to be sponsored for entry into America.
