Inside Out and Back Again

Description:

Inside Out & Back Again is a verse novel by Thanhha Lai. The book was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and one of the two Newbery Honors. The novel was based on her first year in the United States, as a ten-year-old girl who spoke no English in 1975.

subjects: Verse novels,  Vietnam War,  North Vietnamese Army,  Juvenile fiction,  stories in verse,  people & places,  social themes,  emigration & immigration,  new experience,  children's stories,  historical juvenile fiction,  Poetry,  Songs,  Verse,  Realistic Fiction,  fiction,  history,  novels in verse,  historical fiction,  refugees,  prejudices,  bullying,  Juvenile Literature,  Children's Literature,  Juvenile audience,  Emigration and immigration,  Vietnamese Americans,  Immigrants,  New York Times bestseller,  nyt:chapter_books=2012-01-28,  Bullies,  Reading Level-Grade 5,  Reading Level-Grade 4,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 6,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Newbery Honor,  Immigration and emigration,  Children's fiction,  Stories in rhyme,  Vietnamese americans, fiction,  Emigration and immigration, fiction,  Vietnam, fiction,  Alabama, fiction,  award:Newbery_award,  lexile:800,  lexile_range:801-900,  age:min:9,  age:max:12,  grade:min:3,  grade:max:7

People: Kim Hà,  Pink Boy,  Mrs. Washington,  Asian Americans,  Vietnamese Americans

Places: United States,  Alabama,  Vietnam,  Saigon

Times: 1971-1980,  1951-