Roots and Wings

Title

Roots and Wings

Subject

Cambodian Americans -- Juvenile fiction. Cambodian Americans -- Fiction. Mothers and daughters -- Fiction. Identity -- Fiction. Grandmothers -- Fiction. Buddhism -- Customs and practices -- Fiction. Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction. Realistic fiction. Coming of age -- Fiction. Asian American families -- Fiction. Teenage girls -- Fiction. Fourteen-year-old girls -- Fiction. Cambodian American teenage girls -- Fiction. Cambodian American families -- Fiction. Saint Petersburg (Fla.) -- Fiction.

Description

While in St. Petersburg, Florida, to give her grandmother a Cambodian funeral, fourteen-year-old Grace, who was raised in Pennsylvania, finally gets some answers about the father she never met, her mother's and grandmother's youth, and her Asian-American heritage.

Creator

Ly, Many

Publisher

Random House

Date

2008

Type

PZ7 .L979555 Roo

Identifier

2003.500.2884

Collection