House Without Walls
Ching Yeung Russell$11.04
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Most people imagine "home" as a safe, warm place with four walls. But for child refugees Lam and Dee Dee escaping Vietnam, "home" is ever-changing and often doesn't have any walls at all.
"A moving and thought-provoking picture of a refugee experience filled with both tragedy and hope."--School Library Journal House Without Walls has been beautifully rendered in paperback! Eleven-year-old Lam escapes from Vietnam with her younger brother during the Vietnamese Boat People Exodus in 1979, when people from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fled their homelands for safety. For Lam, "safety" means joining her father in San Francisco. But the trip to the United States is long and perilous, full of dangerous encounters with pirates and greedy sailors, a lack of food and water, and even the stench of dead bodies. Befriending Nam, Dao, and their parents is a small reprieve from the horror, but the worst is yet to come. . . . Can Lam and her brother survive the refugee camps? Will they be reunited with their father? Written in verse, House Without Walls is a heartfelt story that is sure to elicit empathy and compassion for refugees around the world escaping oppression.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Yellow Jacket
Published: 05/07/2024
ISBN: 9781499816068
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.20w x 1.00d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 504405 / House Without Walls
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4
"A moving and thought-provoking picture of a refugee experience filled with both tragedy and hope."--School Library Journal House Without Walls has been beautifully rendered in paperback! Eleven-year-old Lam escapes from Vietnam with her younger brother during the Vietnamese Boat People Exodus in 1979, when people from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fled their homelands for safety. For Lam, "safety" means joining her father in San Francisco. But the trip to the United States is long and perilous, full of dangerous encounters with pirates and greedy sailors, a lack of food and water, and even the stench of dead bodies. Befriending Nam, Dao, and their parents is a small reprieve from the horror, but the worst is yet to come. . . . Can Lam and her brother survive the refugee camps? Will they be reunited with their father? Written in verse, House Without Walls is a heartfelt story that is sure to elicit empathy and compassion for refugees around the world escaping oppression.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Yellow Jacket
Published: 05/07/2024
ISBN: 9781499816068
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.20w x 1.00d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 504405 / House Without Walls
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4