| The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story Contributor(s): Shea, Pegi Deitz (Author), Riggio, Anita (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1563976234 ISBN-13: 9781563976230 Publisher: Astra Young Readers OUR PRICE: $9.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: A young Hmong girl in a Thai refugee camp in the mid-1970s finds the story within herself to create her own pa'ndau. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Asia - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Military & Wars |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 94071025 |
| Lexile Measure: 600 |
| Physical Information: 0.16" H x 9.64" W x 9.61" (0.33 lbs) 32 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 14527 Reading Level: 3.9 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mai spends her days at the Widows' Store, listening to the Hmong women as they stitch and talk, stitch and talk. They are making pa'ndau---brightly colored story cloths--which they sell to the traders from Chiang Khan. Mai wishes she, too, could make one of the beautiful pa'ndau, but what story could she tell? This moving and poignant tale depicts life in a refugee camp in Thailand. Mai lives there with her grandmother, who helps her as she struggles to perfect her stitchery. Only by going back into her own brief and tragic past can she find a story to tell--one of hope and faith in the midst of war and confinement. Anita Riggio has rendered lush and sensitive watercolors that frame the story. You Yang, a Hmong immigrant, has stitched the pa'ndau that tell Mai's tale. |