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Gr 5–8—The summer before she turns 13, Mai is planning to spend her time going to the beach and finally talking to her secret crush. She's less than thrilled when her parents make her escort her grandmother to Vietnam instead. New information may have surfaced about her long lost grandfather, who disappeared over 40 years ago in "THE WAR." Mai doesn't know the culture or speak the language, and everything she knows about Vietnam is from a PBS documentary on the Fall of S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This second novel from National Book Award winner La.i (Inside Out and Back Again, rev. 3/11) grabs readers from the start. California girl Mai is on a plane, accompanying Ba, her grandmother, on a trip to Vietnam. Mai, who planned to spend her summer at the beach flirting with "HIM," the boy she has a crush on, is furious. Her dad says Ba needs her support -- a detective has claimed he has news about Ong, Ba's husband, who went missing during the Vietnam W...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Mai, who planned to spend her summer flirting with her crush, unwillingly accompanies Ba, her grandmother, to Vietnam. A detective claims he ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More