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2) The Hmong
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides an introduction to the language, customs, and culture of the Hmong people of Southeast Asia.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Dr. Siri Paiboun, aged chief coroner of Laos, must investigate three mysteries. First, the government asks him to identify a pair of badly burned corpses. Second, he must determine what sort of creature is mauling Vientiene citizens. Finally, he must find out why people are inexplicably falling from the ministry building to their deaths.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
p2016
Description
In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this Hmong folktale, two brothers venture into a remote jungle, hunting food for their hungry family, but the jungle is full of dangerous wild animals, and the older brother vows to keep his younger brother safe, or die trying.