Pegi Deitz Shea, Author . Clarion $15 (236p) ISBN 978-0-618-24748-6
First-time novelist Shea (author of a nonfiction title about the Hmong people, The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story) deftly traces the physical and emotional journey of a 13-year-old orphan from Laos, who is assimilated into American society.
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Pegi Deitz Shea, Author, Leane Morin, Illustrator, Peggy Deitz Shea, Author , illus. by Leane Morin. Tilbury $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-88448-248-2
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See also the Best Children's Books of 2003 (p. 35).
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In Pakistan, it was common practice for moneylenders to offer loans to struggling families in need of food and medicine in exchange for the services of their
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Pegi Deitz Shea, Author, Cynthia Weill, Author, Chronicle Books, Author , illus. by To Ngoc Trang, embroidery by Phanm Viet Dinh. Chronicle $15.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3496-4
Weill, who worked for an international relief organization in Vietnam, Shea and Trang use a counting-book format to introduce readers to Tet—the Vietnamese new year—"as big a celebration as Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas...
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Pegi Deitz Shea, Author, Anita Riggio, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-623-0
A Hmong refugee girl remembers painful episodes from her life in a pa'ndau, a traditional story cloth. Close-up photos of Yang's textured needlework ""add to the [tale's] poignancy,"" said PW. Ages 3-8. (Sept.)
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Pegi Deitz Shea, Author, Anita Riggio, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-134-1
During a visit to a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand, Shea (Bungalow Fungalow) saw women embroidering pa'ndau, narrative tapestries, and noticed a girl who became the model for the heroine of this picture book. Mai, who helps her grandmother create...
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