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Genre/Form: | Juvenile materials Fiction Juvenile works Multicultural stories Juvenile fiction |
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Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Pegi Deitz Shea |
ISBN: | 0618247483 9780618247486 |
OCLC Number: | 51848688 |
Awards: | Short-listed for Connecticut Book Awards (Children's Lit./Author) 2004 Short-listed for Rhode Island Teen Book Award 2005 |
Description: | 236 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | by Pegi Deitz Shea. |
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Abstract:
After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.
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- Refugees -- Juvenile fiction.
- Hmong (Asian people) -- Juvenile fiction.
- Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
- Providence (R.I.) -- Juvenile fiction.
- Refugees -- Fiction.
- Hmong (Asian people) -- Fiction.
- Hmong Americans -- Fiction.
- Grandmothers -- Fiction.
- Embroidery, Hmong -- Fiction.
- Orphans -- Fiction.
- Providence (R.I.) -- Fiction.
- Hmong (Asian people)
- Orphans.
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