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