Books by Thanhha Lai
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review 1: Lia, T. (2011). Inside Out & Back Again. New York, NY: HarperCollins.Inside Out & Back Again is a story about a 10 year old girl named Kim Hὰ, who escapes from Vietnam to Alabama, with her mother and brothers. They hope to escape the Vietnam War and find peace and safety in the U...
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review 1: This book of poems tells the story of a young girl's experiences as her family is forced to flee Saigon during the Vietnam war. She has planted a papaya tree in the garden, and the fruit becomes a symbol of hope, despair, foreignness, and adaptation as her family is relocated th...
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review 1: The author does a really good job of giving 12-year-old Mia a realistic, believable voice and showing how (and why) the girl changes and grows. I was more than a tiny bit annoyed in the beginning at Mia's constant, whiny attitude when she's forced to accompany her grandmother to ...