From: Gardow, Pamela <pgardow_at_ecasd.k12.wi.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:37:26 -0600

While I wish there were more books about the immigrant experience for Vietnamese, Cambodian and Hmong Americans, there are titles that will hit closer to home for them. Below are examples currently in our high school library. Some have quite "edgy" or mature content.

By Loung Ung-- First they Killed my Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers; and Lucky Child: a Daughter of Cambodia reunites with the sister she left behind. By Kao Kalia Yang -- The Latehomecomer: a Hmong Family Memoir By Thanhha Lai - Inside Out & Back Again By Ann E. Burg (about a Vietnamese American boy, but I don't think the author is Vietnamese) All the Broken Pieces Edited by Don Gallo - First Crossing: Stories about Teen Immigrants By GB Tran - Vietnamerica: a Family's Journey (graphic novel) By Lac Su - I Love Yous are for White People: a memoir By Vich Minh Nguyen - Short Girls: a Novel By Andrea Warren - Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Becomes and American Boy Edited by Vincent K. Her and Mary Louise Buley-Meissner - Hmong and American: from Refugees to Citizens By Jerry Yang with Mark Tabb - All In By the D.C. Everest Area School Districe - Looking Back, Stepping Forward: the Hmong People. By Sheila Cohen - Mai Ya's Long Journey By Sue Murphy Mote - Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land By Leah Rempel - Hey, Hmong Girl, Whassup? By Pegi Deitz Shea - Tangled Threads: a Hmong girl's story By Dia Cha and stitched by Chue and Nhia Thao Cha - Dia's Story Cloth. By Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. By Lillian Faderman with Ghia Xiong - I Begin my Life All Over: the Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience.

Pam Gardow, Librarian Memorial High School Eau Claire, WI 54701




Dear Friends,

Yesterday morning I heard an author on Weekend Edition describing her new book. She talked about how she was inspired by the Little House books. Here's an excerpt.

"... And my own family had come from Vietnam in 1975. And our experience as immigrants, you know, moving to the West and searching for a new home was parallel to the Ingalls' experience as pioneers."

After hearing this, all I could think about was the depth and breadth of the conversation we've been having, and how meaningful books are that parallel the range of human experience. What is disappointing is that there were no books for her that reflected more closely her own experiences.


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