When Clouds Touch Us, Thanhha Lai
When Clouds Touch Us, Thanhha Lai
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When Clouds Touch Us

Author: Thanhhà Lai

Narrator: Brigid Mai Khanh Leahy

Unabridged: 2 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 05/09/2023


Synopsis

A Boston Globe–Horn Book Award finalist!Inspired by the author’s own childhood, this stunning novel in verse, the sequel to the award-winning #1 bestseller Inside Out and Back Again, picks up two years after Hà and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the Việt Nam War.Hà and her family have worked hard to make a life for themselves in the US, but it hasn’t come easy. Hà has only just started to feel settled when Mother decides that the family will move to Texas for a new job.Hà knows how hard starting over is and doesn’t want to have to do it again. But sometimes even an unwanted change can bring opportunity, new friends, and a place to call home.This lyrical and compelling sequel to the National Book Award Medalist and Newbery Honor winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel Inside Out and Back Again follows Hà and her family through another year of upheaval, growth, and love.

About Thanhhà Lai

Thanhhà Lại is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award and Newbery Honor–winning Inside Out and Back Again; the celebrated Listen, Slowly; the teen novel Butterfly Yellow; and the picture book Hundred Years of Happiness. She was born in Việt Nam and now lives in New York. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mai

API Month Happy May! Besides finishing up some books I have previously started, I will be reading and reviewing a ton of Asian and Asian American books this month. If you have recommendations for Pacific Islander stories, I'll be taking those at this time. Even though this is a sequel to a book I hav......more

Goodreads review by Shannon

Another moving #ownvoices middle grade novel in verse from the author of Inside out and back again. Told in journal entries over the course of a year, the story picks up two years after Hà and her family settled in Alabama as refugees the Viet Nam war. In this book, the family moves again to Texas f......more

Honestly...not as strong as the first and I think a lot of that had to do with the way in which it was written in verse.......more