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Tangled threads

Pegi Deitz Shea

2003236 pagesabout 4–5 hours
2003
first published
  • 2003HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9781299893252
  • 2003Clarion Books · 236 pages · ENGISBN 9780618247486
  • 2003Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9780547533605

After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.

How it reads

Character focusSingle lead

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Written forMiddle grade

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ThemesFamily
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