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Tangled Threads
A Hmong Girl's Story
By Shea, Pegi Deitz
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-61824-748-6
- Publisher
- New York : Clarion Books, c2003.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2003
Gr 6-9 Mai, 13, is practicing her English in eager anticipation of leaving the crowded Thai refugee camp where she and her grandmother have lived for 10 years. Her parents were killed in Laos and her grandmother carried her across the river to Thailand. As their departure for America nears, Grandma is withdrawn and always stitching away at her pa'ndau (story cloth). Mai yearns for the life her cousins write about, a land of skyscrapers, Coke, and plenty of food, but her arrival in Rhode Island brings mixed reactions. Her cousins have become rebellious, Americanized teens. He...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
