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Américains d'origine vietnamienne Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Cooking, Vietnamese Immigrants Fiction Large type books Meditation Fiction Vietnam Vietnamese Americans Vietnamese Americans Fiction Vietnamese Americans Juvenile fiction Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 Personal narratives, AmericanYork, M. J.
Summary: Provides useful words, numbers, greetings, and phrases in Vietnamese.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J VIETNAMESE 495.9 YORPham, Thien
Summary: "Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 PHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 PHAHenzel, Cynthia Kennedy
Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Vietnamese immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HENDaly, James A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bobbs-Merrill 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 DALNguyen, Nathalie
Summary: "With the huge emigration from Vietnam after its civil war, Vietnamese cuisine has become part of the mainstream of Asian food eaten by North Americans. But if you are new to it, it has delicious mysteries that this book can explain."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59597 NGUSilver, Gail.
Summary: Angry at his friends for chosing kickball over digging, Anh is revisited by Anger who demonstrates how mindful breathing can soothe and transform strong emotions. Based on teachings about mindfulness and Buddhism by Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plum Blossom Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SILPhi, Bao
Summary: "As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PHIGiang, Kristen Mai
Summary: "On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon's surrender to the North Vietnamese Army. Kristen Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of the decision to flee from the perspective of someone eight years old; Playing a game of space-explorers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIARisner, Robinson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.703 RISSummary: Designed to give users comprehensive conversational language and grammar skills. The basic course (10 lessons) focuses on polite greetings and small talk and is perfect for patrons who are planning a short trip to a foreign country, or for those who want to get a taste of a foreign language and culture. The complete course (100 lessons) is designed for patrons who already know the basics of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Languages 2009
Adachi, Yumiko
Summary: Real Vietnamese Cooking gathers the collective culinary wisdom of three intrepid food explorers who spent years training with Vietnam's best chefs while scouring the countryside in search of tastes few foreigners experience. It introduces readers to local takes on classic dishes, as well as lesser known favorites--all delicious and accessible, made from easy-to-find ingredients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Lê, Minh
Summary: When Bình fights back against a bully who makes fun of his Vietnamese heritage, he expects to be cheered as the hero. He defeated the bad guy, right? Instead, it gets him a stern warning from his vice principal and worried parents. Now he's stuck on a family trip to a silent meditation retreat. That means no talking--and no video games!--for a whole weekend. Could things possibly get any worse?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: A debut picture book about a little girl who connects to her Vietnamese heritage when she accidentally rips her late grandmother's áo dái.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUIKrans, Angela Pham
Summary: When Felix's grandmother comes from Vietnam to stay with his family in the United States, Felix realizes that he can help Grandma by teaching her English.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRAPhi, Bao
Summary: Upset after being bullied, Thuy, a Vietnamese American, pretends she is different creatures, including an especially strong, wonderful being made up of her two mothers and herself. Includes note about the phoenix and the Sarabha.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG PHILại, Thanhhà
Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: For the Fallen -- Help Us in This Life -- Road to Home -- The Wind Blows It Away -- I Long to Return to My Hometown -- Heroine Song -- Doomed Love -- The Rice Drum -- Gratitude -- Please Wait for Me -- Taking Your Spirit to the Next World.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: 1. Carol Kim - Sài Gòn 03:08 -- 2. Sơn Ca - Khi Tình Yêu Đến 04:12 -- 3. Vân Sơn - Cô Tây Đen 04:10 -- 4. Elvis Phương - Loan Mắt Nhung 05:13 -- 5. Thanh Tuyền - Con Gái Của Mẹ 03:38 -- 6. Thanh Thúy - Trăng Mờ Bên Suối 04:22 -- 7. Phương Dung - Khúc Hát Ân Tình 04:46 -- 8. Thanh Lan - Sáng Rừng 04:46-- 9. Sơn Ca - Thôn Trăng Mở Hội Trăng Tròn 02:55-- 10. Túy Phượng - Xin Lễ Cưới Em 03:45 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saigon Supersound 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN SAIBui, Thi
Summary: The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comicarts 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.04 BUIHoang, Jamie Jo
Summary: Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books 2023
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Summary: Despite complaints from fellow Drone Academy member Parker, Howard To, sixteen, uses his drone to try to stop the stalker using a similar device to spy on Howard's idol, a famous actress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Nguyen, Nini
Summary: "A Vietnamese cookbook by chef Nini Nguyen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59597 NGUNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: When a wildfire threatens Simone's home, she and Má must rush to take shelter. Guided by her own creativity, and buoyed by Má's memories of her childhood in Việt Nam, Simone navigates her way through an all-too-common crisis. This powerful story, straddling two generations and two countries, shows how communities come together in tough times, and how the youngest can imagine the path to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, a division of Astra Publishing House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NGUWeigl, Bruce
Summary: The author explores the impact of the Vietnam War on his life, discussing how his experiences led him eventually to seek solace in poetry; and tells how he was finally delivered from the ghosts of the war when he traveled back to Hanoi to adopt a Vietnamese child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2000