Escape from Saigon a Vietnam War orphan becomes an American boy

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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Main Author: Warren, Andrea
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"Melanie Kroupa books."
Physical Description:110 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:0374322244
Author Notes:Andrea Warren 's own daughter is one of the 2,300 orphans rescued by Operation Babylift. She is the author of Surviving Hitler , a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book, and Orphan Train Rider , which received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction. She lives in Prairie Village, Kansas.