Thien Pham
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
234 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a new meaning. Strawberries come to signify struggle as...
2) Sumo
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
96 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A washed-up American football player finds a new life in sumo wrestling.
Scott, abandoned by his girlfriend and having lost his dream of playing professional football, is offered a position in a Japanese sumo training "stable," where he seems to find himself again.
3) Level up
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.
