Bamboo people
by Mitali Perkins
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1580893287
- ISBN 13
- 9781580893282
- Seller
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Poulsbo, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Junior Library Guild Selection
Top Ten ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
Starred Reviews in PW and School Library JournalBook Page's Top Ten Middle Grace Novel
Bang! A side door bursts open.
Soldiers pour into the room. They're shouting and waving rifles.
I shield my head with my arms. It was a lie! I think, my mind racing.
Girls and boys alike are screaming. The soldiers prod and herd some of us together and push the rest apart as if we're cows or goats.
Their leader, though, is a middle-aged man. He's moving slowly, intently, not dashing around like the others. "Take the boys only, Win Min," I overhear him telling a tall, gangly soldier. "Make them obey."
Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-loving Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. Tu Reh, on the other hand, wants to fight for freedom after watching Burmese soldiers destroy his Karenni family's home and bamboo fields. Timidity becomes courage and anger becomes compassion as each boy is changed by unlikely friendships formed under extreme circumstances.
Top Ten ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
Starred Reviews in PW and School Library JournalBook Page's Top Ten Middle Grace Novel
Bang! A side door bursts open.
Soldiers pour into the room. They're shouting and waving rifles.
I shield my head with my arms. It was a lie! I think, my mind racing.
Girls and boys alike are screaming. The soldiers prod and herd some of us together and push the rest apart as if we're cows or goats.
Their leader, though, is a middle-aged man. He's moving slowly, intently, not dashing around like the others. "Take the boys only, Win Min," I overhear him telling a tall, gangly soldier. "Make them obey."
Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-loving Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. Tu Reh, on the other hand, wants to fight for freedom after watching Burmese soldiers destroy his Karenni family's home and bamboo fields. Timidity becomes courage and anger becomes compassion as each boy is changed by unlikely friendships formed under extreme circumstances.
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- Bookseller
- Lemolo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1797
- Title
- Bamboo people
- Author
- Mitali Perkins
- Format/Binding
- Book VG, DJ VG, no rips,
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1580893287
- ISBN 13
- 9781580893282
- Publisher
- Charlesbridge
- Place of Publication
- Watertown, MA
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 288
- LCCN
- 2009005495
- Keywords
- teen, YA, middle grade, burmese, boys, jungle mission
- Bookseller catalogs
- young adult;
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