Grades: 4-6
Committee Annotation: Based on the author's own life, a ten-year-old girl experiences the culture shock of moving to America from Viet Nam; this story expresses both the humor and the heartbreak of this time in her life.
Author website: none
I love this book because its not a book you'd read every day. It is poems, coming together, and making this story. The author wrote this mainly about her life, because, she too witnessed the end of the Vietnam war, fled to Alabama with her family and had a missing father. Thanhha Lai really captured Hà's emotions and feelings. It is really well written and I could read books like this everyday.
ReplyDeleteI admire how the author wrote these little poems that are hard to understand at first, but after reading the next two pages you understand the story. I love the book because there are many parts of the story: my favorite is during the Vietnam war. When I read the book, I really felt like I was in the war. I also love the emotions and feelings there are in the story.
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ReplyDeleteI love this book it has peaceful poems but some of the poems are sad and some are greatful I readed one about some ones dad went on a naviy mishion and its like my uncle his 32 years old and he is also on a mishion and I feel sad because his away from me and I felt sad about that poem so it was a peaceful book for me and I loved it. I also liked the part about the papa tree and that boy loved that tree like my grandma she loves trees.
I like the book because it was good. The girl sounded like a real girl because she was sad sometimes and mad. It seemeed real to me
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Meeting Street
6th Grade
I like this book because it is all in poems
ReplyDeleteMy favriote poem was WoW.This book is a really good book because ryhmes a lot and I like poems.I also like close to soon poem. She doesn't like the girl that shares desk with her.
ReplyDeleteI love poetry.
Cassandra
Grade 3
Meeting Street
Great write-up. I just got this book from the library. I normally don't read novel-in-verse but I have heard such great things about this book.
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