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Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue From War (2011)

by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0986949515 (ISBN13: 9780986949517)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Pajama Press

review 1: This is a nonfiction book that tells Tuyet’s story. She was one of the many orphan’s living with missionaries in South Vietnam. Due to the fact that she had a disability, her and the babies living in the orphanage were boxed and flown out of Vietnam to Canada for safety. The author describes in the historical note at the end of the book that North Vietnamese soldiers would kill any of the children who could not be given to families and brought up as Communists. She left on the last refugee flight out of South Vietnam. Tuyet was adopted by a Canadian family, who had two other adopted children and another child of their own. The story describes the unbelievable kindness of the family, and Tuyet’s journey of trying to adapt to this new life of being a child. This book a... morelso includes lots of photographs and other resources for teachers to find more information about the Vietnam babylift.
review 2: A brief but thoughtful look at a girl who was airlifted out of Vietnam at the end of the war, and adopted by a family in Canada. Told in third person but from Tuyet's perspective, this has emotional resonance without feeling manipulative. Photos are included, which help the reader keep the various people clear in his or her mind. A very important part of our history that is not looked at as often as it should be. less

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