Shea, Pegi Deitz.
New York : Clarion Books, c2003.
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Notes:

• After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.
• Concordia University: Hmong Center Collection

Subjects:

• Refugees — Fiction.
• Hmong (Asian people) — Fiction.
• Hmong Americans — Fiction.
• Grandmothers — Fiction.
• Embroidery, Hmong — Fiction.
• Orphans — Fiction.
• Providence (R.I.) — Fiction.
• Refugees — Juvenile fiction.
• Hmong (Asian people) — Juvenile fiction.
• Orphans — Juvenile fiction.

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