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Author Warren, Andrea.

Title Escape from Saigon : how a Vietnam War orphan became an American boy / Andrea Warren.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J959.704 WAR    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Biographies  J B STEINER    Withdrawn
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J 959.704 WAR    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 959.704 STEINER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J959.7 WAR    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  J959.704 WA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 110 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.2 4.0 79911.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection.
Note "Melanie Kroupa books."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [103]-104) and index.
Contents Little boy all alone -- New life in Saigon -- Home at Holt -- Family for long -- No way out -- Crash of the C-5A -- Operation babylift -- Flight to freedom -- Into the eye of the storm -- Real American boy -- Return to Vietnam -- Afterword -- Multimedia recommendations -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Photo credits -- Index.
Summary Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio. Annotation. An unforgettable true story of an orphan caught in the midst of war Over a million South Vietnamese children were orphaned by the Vietnam War. This affecting true account tells the story of Long, who, like more than 40,000 other orphans, is Amerasian -- a mixed-race child -- with little future in Vietnam. Escape from Saigon allows readers to experience Long's struggle to survive in war-torn Vietnam, his dramatic escape to America as part of "Operation Babylift" during the last chaotic days before the fall of Saigon, and his life in the United States as "Matt," part of a loving Ohio family. Finally, as a young doctor, he journeys back to Vietnam, ready to reconcile his Vietnamese past with his American present. As the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches, this compelling account provides a fascinating introduction to the war and the plight of children caught in the middle of it.
Subject Steiner, Matt -- Juvenile literature.
Vietnamese Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Adopted children -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Orphans -- Vietnam -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Children -- Juvenile literature.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees -- Juvenile literature.
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Steiner, Matt.
Vietnamese Americans -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Children.
Intercountry adoption.
Interracial adoption.
Adoption.
ISBN 0374322244: $17.00
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