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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies Juvenile works Juvenile literature Biography Juvenile literature Biographies Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Ouvrages pour la jeunesse |
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Named Person: | Matt Steiner; Matt Steiner; Matt Steiner; Matt Steiner |
Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrea Warren |
ISBN: | 9780374400231 0374400237 9781613838129 1613838123 |
OCLC Number: | 809078265 |
Notes: | Originally published in hardcover: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. |
Awards: | Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2005 |
Description: | xvi, 110 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Little boy all alone -- New life in Saigon -- Home at Holt -- Family for Long -- No way out -- Crash of the C-5A -- Operation babylift -- Flight to freedom -- Into the eye of the storm -- Real American boy -- Return to Vietnam. |
Other Titles: | How a Vietnam War orphan became an American boy |
Responsibility: | Andrea Warren. |
Abstract:
Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.
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