Author

Publication

2011 - Harper, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

65,500 words, Guess

Page Count

262 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC[Fic]
  • LCCPZ7.5.L35 In 2011

Description

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.

Excerpt

Today is Tét, the first day, of the lunar calendar.

Description

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

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