Adrift at Sea - A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival

Informationen zum Autor Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch 's award-winning books for young people include Last Airlift , a Red Cedar Information Book Award winner and OLA Red Maple Honour Book. Its sequel, One Step at a Time , won the OLA Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Her YA novel Dance of the Banished is a Junior Library Guild Selection for 2015. In 2008, in recognition of her outstanding achievement in the development Ukraine's culture, Marsha was awarded the Order of Princess Olha. She lives in Brantford, Ontario. Klappentext Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis. Leseprobe On the second day, our boat springs a leak. I wish I could drink the water that laps around my feet, but it’s full of salt. Ma and Nghia take turns bailing. It’s hard work and few offer to help. Don’t they realize our boat could sink? The captain gives them a bottle of water in thanks. We hide this treasure in our bags. Zusammenfassung Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Deines, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
• Assisted by: Brian Deines (Illustration)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 9
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781772780055
• ISBN: 978-1-77278-005-5
• Dimensions: 290 mm x 248 mm x 12 mm
• Assisted by: Tuan Ho
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology; JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Asia, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Historical, C 1980 To C 1990, Children’s / Teenage social issues: War & conflict issues, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places & peoples, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Ho, Tuan, Ho, Tuan – Juvenile literature., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Refugees--Juvenile literature., Refugees -- Vietnam -- Biography – Juvenile literature., Tuan Ho;Van Ho