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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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2019.
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English
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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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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Young Adults
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
Asian Pacific American 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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English
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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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English
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3rd Grade Rocks
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Children
Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
Ezra Jack Keats Award and Honor Books
Asian Pacific American Heritage - 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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English
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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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English
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4th Grade Rocks
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - 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.
11) Rage of fire
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Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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Jack, Ashley, and their parents visit Hawaii where they meet a Vietnamese boy who is going to live with his American grandfather whom he has never met, and are pursued by the Goddess Pele.
14) Banyan Moon
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Language
English
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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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Nguyen kids volume 4
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English
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"The Nguyen kids are going on vacation! It's their first time in Vietnam and staying in Grandma's childhood home, so they should be excited. As soon as they enter the house, though, something doesn't feel right. Why is the door to the ancestors' room always closed? And why can't they connect with Grandma using their gifts, the way they can at home?"--
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2024.
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English
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"Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed--no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever?"--
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