Another bedtime story finished, and another one to read again when Lily is older. This is the story of Hà, a refugee girl from Saigon, who flees with her mother and three brothers, at the end of the Vietnam war. She and her family end up in Alabama, where their otherness leads to hurt and frustra...
Written in verse, Ha tells us what it is like to be a refuge from Vietnam. Her father is a Navy MIA soldier and as the youngest daughter of the family, you can feel the fear and the honesty in the words and the actions as Ha adjusts to the situations around her. Traveling by boat, the situation at...
Review: I stayed away from free verse poetry for a majority of my life. Now, in my wizened old age, I have built a healthy relationship and have a new-found respect for the format. My love for Thuy Trang spurred my interest in Vietnam. I've taken a great interest in the Vietnam War due to this pop ...
Plot Summary: Ha has lived in Vietnam all her life, but when war approaches her hometown of Saigon, she and her family flee to safety in the United States. The journey is treacherous and adjusting to the American way of life is incredibly difficult for Ha. Told through prose poetry, this moving stor...
Let's start with the part the jacket neglects to mention: this book is written entirely in verse. I don't mean that as a judgement, just a description. And a warning that if you have eyeballed the page count and used it to estimate the amount of time it will take your ten year old to read, this will...
Inside Out and Back Again is a very quick read, but you'll love it even past the end. There is something about free verse that is so beautiful and simple and Lai's book has such gorgeous prose. You also really connect with the main character, Ha. I felt like I was right beside her when I read this b...
3.5 stars.I agree with what another reviewer had to say about this one: overall good, but not great. I'm also surprised it was a Newberry honor book.It was lovely, that's for sure. Entirely written in free verse, each chapter could almost function as a poem on its own. My favorites were the chapt...
This was such an easy read but it has the depth an award winning book should have. Most historical fiction I've read with immigrants and refugees are related to the Russians and Jews so I wanted to read something set in Asia for a change. It's my first Vietnam war related book. When I read the blurb...
Appeal Characteristics: historical, Vietnam, Communism, Refugees, School, Bullies, Friendship, Family, AdjustmentsI love prose...and poetry...but most of the time I don't like reading a fiction story about it. I read this article with Thanhha explaining that the reason she felt this prose worked bes...
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