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Pub. Date
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...
Author
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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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
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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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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Language
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.
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Language
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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Pioneer girl
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Discovering a family heirloom that her mother may have received from Laura Ingalls Wilder, PhD graduate Lee Lien explores the tenuous connection between her ancestors and the famous pioneer author only to discover a trail of clues that lead to fateful encounters
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Language
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"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.
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Series
Team Chu volume 2
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"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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Series
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?"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
National Poetry Month - Kids
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2024
National Poetry Month - Kids
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2024
Description
"Ha and her family have worked hard to make a life for themselves in the US, but it hasn't come easy. Ha has only just started to feel settled when Mother decides that the family will move to Texas for a new job."--Publisher's description.
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