"When Mai's family discovers that Vietnam government soldiers will soon apprehend her father and grandmother, the family slips away in the night. They trudge through the swamps of the Mekong Delta toward the sea. The gut-wrenching trip to Hong Kong is just another step toward a new life, which the family eventually finds. Whelan's characters are distinctive, and her story is riveting, haunting, and memorable, reflecting the human virtues of determination, hope, love, and courage in the face of the most devastating of circumstances and injustices."--Booklist.
| ISBN: | 9780679823766 |
| Publication date: | 19th October 1993 |
| Author: | Gloria Whelan |
| Publisher: | Yearling an imprint of Random House Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 144 pages |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Children’s / Teenage social topics: Migration / refugees Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction Warfare & Battles |