Inside out & back again
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062574022
- ISBN: 0062574027
- ISBN: 9780062574022 : (hardcover) ;
- ISBN: 0062574027
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Physical Description:
260, 18 pages ; 21 cm
print - Edition: Harper Classic edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes bonus materials: author's note, an interview with the author, an activity, writing tips, and discussion questions. |
Summary, etc.: | "Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee--fleeing Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama--this coming-of-age debut told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye view of family and immigration. Hà has only ever known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope--toward America."--Amazon.com. |
Action Note: | National Book Award Winner |
Awards Note: | Newbery Honor Book |
Search for related items by subject
Genre: | Novels in verse. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | J LAI (Text) | 34000090071648 | Juvenile Summer Reading Grade 4 | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | J LAI (Text) | 34000090071713 | Juvenile Summer Reading Grade 4 | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | J LAI (Text) | 34000090071747 | Juvenile Summer Reading Grade 4 | Available | - |
Author Notes
Inside Out and Back Again: a Harper Classic
Thanhha Lai was born in 1965 in Vietnam. She is an American writer of children's literature. At the Fall of Saigon April 30, 1975, her soldier father was missing in action. Mother and children fled to the United States and moved to Montgomery,Alabama, because one man there was willing to sponsor all ten of them. Before high school, the family had moved to Fort Worth, Texas. Lai graduated from University of Texas, Austin with a degree in journalism and from 1988 worked about two years for the Orange County, California newspaper The Register, covering Little Saigon, the local Vietnamese community. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University and settled in New York City, where she teaches at Parsons The New School for Design. In 2011, she won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a Newbery Honor for her debut novel, Inside Out & Back Again, published by HarperCollins. It is a verse novel based on her first year in the United States, a ten-year-old child who spoke no English when she arrived. In 2013 this novel made The New York Times best seller list. 030 (Bowker Author Biography)