When Clouds Touch Us

A Boston Globe - Horn Book Award finalist! Inspired by the author''s own childhood, this stunning novel in verse, the sequel to the award-winning #1 bestseller Inside Out and Back Again , picks up two years after Ha and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the Việt Nam War. Ha and her family have worked hard to make a life for themselves in the US, but it hasn''t come easy. Ha has only just started to feel settled when Mother decides that the family will move to Texas for a new job. Ha knows how hard starting over is and doesn''t want to have to do it again. But sometimes even an unwanted change can bring opportunity, new friends, and a place to call home. This lyrical and compelling sequel to the National Book Award Medalist and Newbery Honor winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel Inside Out and Back Again follows Ha and her family through another year of upheaval, growth, and love.

About the author

Thanhhà Lại is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award and Newbery Honor–winning Inside Out and Back Again; the celebrated Listen, Slowly; the teen novel Butterfly Yellow; and the picture book Hundred Years of Happiness. She was born in Việt Nam and now lives in New York. 

Product details

• Authors: Thanhha Lai, Thanhhà Lai
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2024
• EAN: 9780063047013
• ISBN: 978-0-06-304701-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Friendship, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / New Experience, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Bullying, JUVENILE FICTION: Poetry (see also Stories in Verse) *, JUVENILE FICTION: Stories in Verse (see also Poetry), JUVENILE FICTION: Historical / General, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration