NIST comments:
Y7: "This is about the Vietnam War so if you want to learn more you should read it."
Y7: "the book is an interesting book about a girl who got bullied and lost her father and try to find her way in a better life"
Y7: "the book is an interesting book about a girl who got bullied and lost her father and try to find her way in a better life"
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Collection
Publication
HarperCollins (2013), Edition: Reprint, 288 pages
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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Original publication date
2011
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Young People's Literature — 2011)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2014)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2014)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 2014)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Children's Fiction — 2014)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2014)
Sasquatch Book Award (Nominee — 2014)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2014)
Newbery Medal (Honor Book — 2012)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2014)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 2013)
Oregon Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2014)
Iowa Children's Choice Award (Nominee — 2015)
North Carolina Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2014)
Rhode Island Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
Jane Addams Children's Book Award (Honor Book — 2012)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-6 — 2013)
South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee — Children's Book Award — 2013)
CCBC Choices (2012)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2012)
Notable Children's Book (2012)
Teacher Favorites Award (2012)
Idaho Battle of the Books (2020)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Kids (Fiction for Older Readers — 2011)
Language
Original language
English