vietnamese americans

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vietnamese americans

Going home, coming home

Ve Nha, Tham Que Huong
2003
A young girl visits her grandmother in Vietnam, where her parents were born, and learns that she can call two places home. Presented in English and Vietnamese.

The Vietnamese Americans

1999
Presents an introduction to Vietnam, its people, culture, and religion; features a history of Vietnamese immigration; and discusses some of the challenges faced by Vietnamese Americans in the areas of employment, education, political participation, and cultural preservation.

A sense of duty

my father, my American journey
2005
Former Vietnamese refugee Quang X. Pham chronicles his father's experiences fighting for South Vietnam in the 1960s and discusses how his father's involvement in the war impacted Quang's own life.

Ollie and the science of treasure hunting

a 14-day mystery
2014
While spending two weeks at Wilderness Camp on the Boston Harbor Islands, thirteen-year-old Ollie, short, half Vietnamese, asthmatic, and overweight, must find and protect hidden pirate treasure from those who would steal it for themselves.

Monkey bridge

1998
Mai Nguyen, a young Vietnamese girl, immigrates to America after the end of the Vietnam War and moves into a Vietnamese community in Virginia where she is reunited with her mother and learns about her family's dark past.

La busqueda de Park

1989
Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War.

My best friend, Duc Tran

meeting a Vietnamese-American family
1987
An American boy's friendship with a Vietnamese American boy and his family introduces him to the holidays, customs, foods, and family events of their culture.

Hoang breaks the lucky teapot

1992
When a Vietnamese boy breaks his family's Gia Truyen, a teapot which houses May Man, the good spirit, he tries to repair the damage in order to keep away evil spirits and bad fortune.

Vietnamerica

the war comes home
1996

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