Escape from Saigon How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy

Name: Escape from Saigon How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
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ISBN: 9780374322243

ISBN-10: 0374322244

ISBN-13: 9780374322243

Edition: 2004

Authors: Andrea Warren

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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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/9/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Andrea Warren is the author of several highly acclaimed children’s books, includingOrphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Outstanding Nonfiction;Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, a Robert F. Sibert Award Honor Book; andEscape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy, aBooklistEditors’ Choice.