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2019.
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"[A] portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable...
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3rd Grade Rocks
Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage - More Children
Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
Ezra Jack Keats Award and Honor Books
Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage - More Children
Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
Ezra Jack Keats Award and Honor Books
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"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
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2021.
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English
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"When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. Over time, Huong realizes she will never see Cong again. While she copes with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh,...
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Searching for answers about her dissident father's disappearance, a Vietnamese-American art curator returns to her ancestral country, where she meets a venerable pho stall soup maker and a dynamic young tour guide whose historical and cultural insights irrevocably shape her life.
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"Inspired by the different ways American and Vietnamese cultures think of love, this book follows a young Vietnamese American girl who asks her friends at school where they store love for their parents. She learns that love can be held throughout the whole body and that there is not just one expression of love"--
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2014.
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English
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While spending two weeks at Wilderness Camp on the Boston Harbor Islands, thirteen-year-old Ollie--short, half Vietnamese, asthmatic, and overweight--must find and protect hidden pirate treasure from those who would steal it for themselves.
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English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Young Adults
Lighthearted Reads for Teens
Lighthearted Reads for Teens
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High school seniors Bảo and Linh, whose feuding families own competing Vietnamese restaurants, conceal their budding romance, as well as Linh's desire to become an artist.
10) My footprints
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Upset after being bullied, Thuy, a Vietnamese American, pretends she is different creatures, including an especially strong, wonderful being made up of her two mothers and herself. Includes note about the phoenix and the Sarabha.
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Team Chu volume 2
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English
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Sadie, Chip, and Jeremey compete in a reality TV show where they cosplay as young knights, but the lines between reality and make-believe begin to blur as they undergo challenges of courage, determination, humility, intelligence, and strength.
12) Banyan Moon
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When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life, a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste, but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future...
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4th Grade Rocks
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
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Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Young Adults
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
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Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
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"Trixie Nguyen is determined to make her sex toy business a success, proving to her traditional Vietnamese parents that she can succeed in a nontraditional career. She's made a fresh start in Washington DC, and her first pop-up event is going well--until she runs into the ex who dumped her. With a Post-it note. The last person Andre Walker expected to see in his soul food restaurant was the woman he left behind in New Orleans. Their chemistry is still...
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2024.
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English
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"For Hương, life in Saigon, Vietnam, is mostly normal--at least, as normal as it can be while a war is going on. But when her family decides to take the last flight out of the country to build a new life in America, [she] worries about missing her home. Through new friends and old traditions, Hương learns that no matter where we go, the smell of home and the taste of love can be found anywhere, as long as we have our family"--|cProvided by publisher....
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"When Mindy announces that she is returning to Vietnam to find her birthmother, it inspires her father, mother, and sister to recall the events of her adoption at the end of the Vietnam War during Operation Baby Lift. In this beautiful time-slip story, Mindy's family reexamines what it means to grow together beyond genetic code"--
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Team Chu volume 3
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English
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Siblings Clip and Sadie Chu, along with their friends, must unearth the mystery behind a haunted Halloween carnival.
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