Author: Therese Bartlett
Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Book Company
ISBN: 9780963847256
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grade level: 1, 2, k, p, e, t.
Children of the Dragon
Author: Garland, Sherry
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781455617098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Vietnamese folk tales retold for a modern audience. In poetry and literature the Vietnamese call themselves the "children of the dragon." Their oral tradition is a strong one and this volume includes three of the familiar teaching tales told by the elders. Readers will learn how the tiger got his stripes, why there are monsoons, and the story of the Moon Festival.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781455617098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Vietnamese folk tales retold for a modern audience. In poetry and literature the Vietnamese call themselves the "children of the dragon." Their oral tradition is a strong one and this volume includes three of the familiar teaching tales told by the elders. Readers will learn how the tiger got his stripes, why there are monsoons, and the story of the Moon Festival.
When You Were Born in Vietnam
Author: Therese Bartlett
Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Book Company
ISBN: 9780963847256
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grade level: 1, 2, k, p, e, t.
Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Book Company
ISBN: 9780963847256
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grade level: 1, 2, k, p, e, t.
Surviving Twice
Author: Trin Yarborough
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612342957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the war's end and grew up as Americans, speaking English and attending American schools. Instead, this group of Amerasians faced much more formidable obstacles, both in Vietnam and in their new home. Surviving Twice raises significant questions about how mixed-race children born of wars and occupations are treated and the ways in which the shifting laws, policies, social attitudes, and bureaucratic red tape of two nations affect them their entire lives.
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612342957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the war's end and grew up as Americans, speaking English and attending American schools. Instead, this group of Amerasians faced much more formidable obstacles, both in Vietnam and in their new home. Surviving Twice raises significant questions about how mixed-race children born of wars and occupations are treated and the ways in which the shifting laws, policies, social attitudes, and bureaucratic red tape of two nations affect them their entire lives.
Vietnam's Children in a Changing World
Author: Rachel Burr
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813537962
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Draws on the author's daily observations of working children in Hanoi and argues that the youngsters are misunderstood by the majority of agencies that seek to support them. Looking at the experiences of children in contemporary Vietnam, she provides an analysis of how internationally led human rights agendas are often received on the local level.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813537962
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Draws on the author's daily observations of working children in Hanoi and argues that the youngsters are misunderstood by the majority of agencies that seek to support them. Looking at the experiences of children in contemporary Vietnam, she provides an analysis of how internationally led human rights agendas are often received on the local level.
The Vietnam War in American Childhood
Author: Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A sort of nebulous sad thing happening forever and ever : childhood socialization to the Vietnam War -- Why couldn't I fight in a nice, simpler war? : comic books and Mad magazine -- Who bombed Santa's workshop? : militarizing play with commercial war toys -- One of the most agonizing years of my life : knowing someone in Vietnam -- Mom tried to make it for us like he wasn't even gone : father separation and reunion -- God bless dad wherever you are : POW/MIA -- How come the flags around town aren't flying at half-mast? : Gold Star children -- Yes, I am My Lai, but My Lai is better than Viet Cong! : Vietnamese adoptees and Amerasians.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A sort of nebulous sad thing happening forever and ever : childhood socialization to the Vietnam War -- Why couldn't I fight in a nice, simpler war? : comic books and Mad magazine -- Who bombed Santa's workshop? : militarizing play with commercial war toys -- One of the most agonizing years of my life : knowing someone in Vietnam -- Mom tried to make it for us like he wasn't even gone : father separation and reunion -- God bless dad wherever you are : POW/MIA -- How come the flags around town aren't flying at half-mast? : Gold Star children -- Yes, I am My Lai, but My Lai is better than Viet Cong! : Vietnamese adoptees and Amerasians.
The Dust of Life
Author: Robert S. McKelvey
Publisher: UBS Publishers' Distributors
ISBN: 9780295978369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
McKelvey has collected vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians who were abandoned during the war by their American fathers.
Publisher: UBS Publishers' Distributors
ISBN: 9780295978369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
McKelvey has collected vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians who were abandoned during the war by their American fathers.
Escape from Saigon
Author: Andrea Warren
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 146683448X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
An unforgettable true story of an orphan caught in the midst of war Over a million South Vietnamese children were orphaned by the Vietnam War. This affecting true account tells the story of Long, who, like more than 40,000 other orphans, is Amerasian -- a mixed-race child -- with little future in Vietnam. Escape from Saigon allows readers to experience Long's struggle to survive in war-torn Vietnam, his dramatic escape to America as part of "Operation Babylift" during the last chaotic days before the fall of Saigon, and his life in the United States as "Matt," part of a loving Ohio family. Finally, as a young doctor, he journeys back to Vietnam, ready to reconcile his Vietnamese past with his American present. As the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches, this compelling account provides a fascinating introduction to the war and the plight of children caught in the middle of it.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 146683448X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
An unforgettable true story of an orphan caught in the midst of war Over a million South Vietnamese children were orphaned by the Vietnam War. This affecting true account tells the story of Long, who, like more than 40,000 other orphans, is Amerasian -- a mixed-race child -- with little future in Vietnam. Escape from Saigon allows readers to experience Long's struggle to survive in war-torn Vietnam, his dramatic escape to America as part of "Operation Babylift" during the last chaotic days before the fall of Saigon, and his life in the United States as "Matt," part of a loving Ohio family. Finally, as a young doctor, he journeys back to Vietnam, ready to reconcile his Vietnamese past with his American present. As the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches, this compelling account provides a fascinating introduction to the war and the plight of children caught in the middle of it.
The Coconut Children
Author: Vivian Pham
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143793845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Life in the troubled neighbourhood of Cabramatta demands too much too young. But Sonny wouldn’t really know. Watching the world from her bedroom window, she exists only in second-hand romance novels and falls for any fast-food employee who happens to spare her a glance. Everything changes with the return of Vince, a boy who became a legend after he was hauled away in handcuffs. Sonny and Vince used to be childhood friends. But with all that happened in-between, childhood seems so long ago. It will take two years of juvie, an inebriated grandmother and an unexpected discovery for them to meet again. The Coconut Children is an urgent, moving and wise debut from a young and gifted storyteller.
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143793845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Life in the troubled neighbourhood of Cabramatta demands too much too young. But Sonny wouldn’t really know. Watching the world from her bedroom window, she exists only in second-hand romance novels and falls for any fast-food employee who happens to spare her a glance. Everything changes with the return of Vince, a boy who became a legend after he was hauled away in handcuffs. Sonny and Vince used to be childhood friends. But with all that happened in-between, childhood seems so long ago. It will take two years of juvie, an inebriated grandmother and an unexpected discovery for them to meet again. The Coconut Children is an urgent, moving and wise debut from a young and gifted storyteller.
Orphans of War
Author: Rosemary Taylor
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Life We Were Given
Author: Dana Sachs
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780807042410
Category : Airlift, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In April 1975, the U.S. government evacuated nearly 3,000 displaced Vietnamese children just before the fall of Saigon. Sachs examines the rescue more carefully, revealing how a single public-policy gesture irrevocably altered thousands of lives, not always for the better.
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780807042410
Category : Airlift, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In April 1975, the U.S. government evacuated nearly 3,000 displaced Vietnamese children just before the fall of Saigon. Sachs examines the rescue more carefully, revealing how a single public-policy gesture irrevocably altered thousands of lives, not always for the better.