Summary
"Award-winning author Kao Kalia Yang delivers an inspiring tale of resourceful children confronting adversaries in a refugee camp"-- Full description
Summary: |
"Award-winning author Kao Kalia Yang delivers an inspiring tale of resourceful children confronting adversaries in a refugee camp"-- |
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Physical Description: |
1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm |
Audience: |
Ages 7. Grades K-1. |
ISBN: |
9781517907983 1517907985 |
Author Notes: |
Kao Kalia Yang is author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir , winner of Minnesota Book Awards in both Creative Nonfiction/Memoir and Reader's Choice, and a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Creative Nonfiction as well as the Asian Literary Award in Nonfiction. Her second book, The Song Poet , won a Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the PEN USA Award in Nonfiction, and the Dayton's Literary Peace Prize. Her first children's book, A Map into the World , is an ALA Notable Book, a Charlotte Zolotow Book Award honoree, and a winner of the Minnesota Book Award in Children's Literature. The Shared Room , illustrated by Xee Reiter, was published by Minnesota in 2020. Billy Thao is a Hmong American artist who was born and raised in Minnesota. This is his first book. |