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Thanhha Lai

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Born January 1, 1965 (61 years old)
Ho Chi Minh City, United States
Also known as: Lai T. Thanh Hà, Thanhhà Lai
4 books
3.9 (52)
834 readers
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American children's writer

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Butterfly Yellow

4.0 (2)
19

A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.

Inside Out & Back Again

3.9 (50)
792

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.