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Vietnam-born author Thanhha Lai bursts onto the literary scene with Inside Out & Back Again -- her National Book Award-winning debut. Written in rich, free-verse poems, this moving tale follows a young Vietnamese girl as she leaves her war-torn homeland for America in 1975. With Saigon about to fall...

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Main Author: Lai, Thanhha
Other Authors: Ly, Doan (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books, 2015.
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Juvenile fiction.
Vietnamese Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants > Juvenile fiction.
Alabama > Juvenile fiction.
Vietnam > History > Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse > Juvenile.
Historical fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:Vietnam-born author Thanhha Lai bursts onto the literary scene with Inside Out & Back Again -- her National Book Award-winning debut. Written in rich, free-verse poems, this moving tale follows a young Vietnamese girl as she leaves her war-torn homeland for America in 1975. With Saigon about to fall to the communists, 10-year-old HA, her mother, and brothers are forced to flee their beloved city and head to the United States. But living in a new country isn't easy for HA, and she finds adapting to its strange customs ever challenging.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (3 audio files) : digital
Playing Time:02:30:13
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ISBN:9781464020988
Author Notes:Thanhha Lai was born in 1965 in Vietnam. She is an American writer of children's literature. At the Fall of Saigon April 30, 1975, her soldier father was missing in action. Mother and children fled to the United States and moved to Montgomery,Alabama, because one man there was willing to sponsor all ten of them. Before high school, the family had moved to Fort Worth, Texas. Lai graduated from University of Texas, Austin with a degree in journalism and from 1988 worked about two years for the Orange County, California newspaper The Register, covering Little Saigon, the local Vietnamese community. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University and settled in New York City, where she teaches at Parsons The New School for Design.

In 2011, she won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a Newbery Honor for her debut novel, Inside Out & Back Again, published by HarperCollins. It is a verse novel based on her first year in the United States, a ten-year-old child who spoke no English when she arrived. In 2013 this novel made The New York Times best seller list.

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