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An edition of Inside Out & Back Again
(2011)
Inside Out & Back Again
First Scholastic Printing
by Thanhha Lai
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For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by...and the beauty of her very own papaya tree.
But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Ha and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, Ha discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape...and the strength of her very own family.
This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
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Verse novels, Vietnam War, North Vietnamese Army, Juvenile fiction, stories in verse, people & places, social themes, emigration & immigration, new experience, children's stories, historical juvenile fiction, Poetry, Songs, Verse, Realistic Fiction, fiction, history, novels in verse, historical fiction, refugees, prejudices, bullying, Juvenile Literature, Children's Literature, Juvenile audience, Emigration and immigration, Vietnamese Americans, Immigrants, New York Times bestseller, nyt:chapter_books=2012-01-28, Bullies, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 8, Newbery Honor, Immigration and emigration, Children's fiction, Stories in rhyme, Vietnamese americans, fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Vietnam, fiction, Alabama, fiction, Novels in verse, Fiction, History, award:Newbery_award, lexile:800, lexile_range:801-900, age:min:9, age:max:12, grade:min:3, grade:max:7Places
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Inside Out & Back Again
2017, Harper
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Shi sui na nian: Inside out & back again
2013, Yunnan chu ban ji tuan gong si, Chen guang chu ban she, Chen Guang Chu Ban She
in Chinese
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7541452009 9787541452000
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Inside Out & Back Again
2012-01, Scholastic
Paperback
in English
- First Scholastic Printing
0545508975 9780545508971
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Inside Out & Back Again
2012-01, Scholastic
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0545447852 9780545447850
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Inside Out & Back Again
2011-01, HarperCollins eBooks
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Inside Out & Back Again is a verse novel by Thanhha Lai. The book was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and one of the two Newbery Honors. The novel was based on her first year in the United States, as a ten-year-old girl who spoke no English in 1975.
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| January 7, 2024 | Edited by Bernat Fortet | Add subjects: lexile:800, lexile_range:801-900, age:min:9, age:max:12, grade:min:3, grade:max:7 |
| January 3, 2024 | Edited by Bernat Fortet | Add Juvenile subject |
| January 3, 2024 | Edited by Bernat Fortet | Add Juvenile subject |
| January 3, 2024 | Edited by Bernat Fortet | Add Juvenile subject |
| July 29, 2011 | Created by LC Bot | import new book |