{"product_id":"9780593697207","title":"A Year Without Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poignant novel in verse about a Hmong girl losing and finding home in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. For fans of Jasmine Warga and Veera Hiranandani.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"As gripping as it is informative and as       beautiful as it is heartbreaking, \u003ci\u003eA Year Without Home\u003c\/i\u003e does what       all great books do: spark curiosity, ignite compassion, and leave its       readers changed for the better. The young people who read V.T. Bidania's       story will feel energized and empowered to make their future kinder, more       peaceful, and more just than either the past or our present.\"\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eJarrett       Lerner, award-winning author-illustrator of \u003ci\u003eA Work in Progress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor eleven-year-old Gao Sheng, home is the lush, humid jungles and highlands of Laos. Home is where she can roll down the grassy hill with her younger siblings after her chores, walk to school, and pick ripe peaches from her family’s trees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut home becomes impossible to hold onto when the communist government takes over after U.S. troops pull out of the Vietnam War. The communists will be searching for any American allies, like Gao Sheng’s father, a Hmong captain in the Lao Army who fought alongside the Americans against the Vietnamese. If he’s caught, he’ll be killed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the adults frantically make plans – contacting family, preparing a route, and bundling up their silver and gold, Gao Sheng wonders if she will ever return to her beloved Laos and what’s to become of her family now. Gao Sheng only knows that a good daughter doesn’t ask questions or complain. A good daughter doesn’t let her family down. Even though sometimes, she wishes she could be just a kid rolling down a grassy hill again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn foot, by taxi and finally in a canoe, Gao Sheng and her family make haste from the mountains to the capitol Vientiane and across the rushing Mekong River, to finally arrive at an overcrowded refugee camp in Thailand. As a year passes at the camp, Gao Sheng discovers how to rebuild home no matter where she is and finally find her voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by author V.T. Bidania’s family history, \u003ci\u003eA Year Without Home\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the long, difficult journey that many Hmong refugees faced after the Vietnam War.","brand":"Penguin Young Readers Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42989134250045,"sku":"9780593697207","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780593697207_p0.jpg?v=1771579473","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780593697207","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}