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    Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
      This is an informative account of a child left behind when his American soldier father left Vietnam and his mother died. It traces his journey to America, his adopted family and his eventual return to his homeland to help orphans.
      Author: Warren, Andrea HSE Descriptors: social studies | language arts - reading

    Lotus Seed, The
      A young girl tells her grandmother's story of carrying a lotus seed with her from Vietnam, losing it, and then regaining it. The author wants to share "how a family's heritage is passed from one generation to the next and how hope, like the lotus seed, ca
      Author: Garland, Sherry HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Toad is the Uncle of Heaven
      Illustrations draw on traditional Vietnamese figures. They may be foreign looking to Americans, but they are not childish.
      Author: Lee, Jeanne

    Tree Girl
      Based on true experiences that were shared with the author, Gabriela, a Guatemalan girl who loves to climb trees, escapes a massacre, eventually reaching a refugee camp where she is reunited with her little sister, both of whom must overcome the trauma an
      Author: Mikaelsen, Ben

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    America's White Table
      A simple story about a family's Veterans' Day dinner preparation is used to tell the true story of the white tables set for POWs/MIAs.
      Author: Raven, Margot HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Bee & Jacky
      A brother and sister suffer the effects of their father's Vietnam trauma and their mother's ineffectualness by resuming a physical relationship. This moving, psychologically honest book is difficult to read because the real or imagined incest is portraye
      Author: Coman, Carolyn

    Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
      This is an informative account of a child left behind when his American soldier father left Vietnam and his mother died. It traces his journey to America, his adopted family and his eventual return to his homeland to help orphans.
      Author: Warren, Andrea HSE Descriptors: social studies | language arts - reading

    Half Spoon of Rice
      Nine-year old Nat is forced from his home and marched into the countryside when the Khmer Rouge takes power. He is separated from his family and is forced to labor in the rice fields for four years. He survives and is reunited with his family. A surviva
      Author: Smith, Icy HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Half Spoon of Rice
      Nine-year old Nat is forced from his home and marched into the countryside when the Khmer Rouge takes power. He is separated from his family and is forced to labor in the rice fields for four years. He survives and is reunited with his family. A surviva
      Author: Smith, Icy HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Kennedy Through the Lens: How Photography and Television Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Leader
      The highlights of John F. Kennedy's life is told through exquisite full-page photographs, accompanied by quotes and a summary of each event. All aspects of this man are beautifully shown, as a son, a brother, a father, an activist and a leader. The unde
      Author: Sandler, Martin W. HSE Descriptors: social studies | language arts - reading

    Wall, The
      In this emotionally charged book told from the point of view of the child, a boy and his dad look for the grandfather's name on the Vietnam Memorial.
      Author: Bunting, Eve HSE Descriptors: social studies


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