Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story

Title

Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story

Subject

Refugees -- Fiction. Hmong (Asian people) -- Fiction. Hmong Americans -- Fiction. Grandmothers -- Fiction. Embroidery, Hmong -- Fiction. Orphans -- Fiction. Providence (R.I.) -- Fiction. Refugees -- Juvenile fiction. Hmong (Asian people) -- Juvenile fiction. Orphans -- Juvenile fiction. Providence (R.I.) -- Juvenile fiction.

Description

After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.

Creator

Shea, Pegi Deitz

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Company

Date

2003

Type

PZ7 .S53755 Tan

Identifier

2003.500.4338

Collection