From the Tops of the Trees

by Kao Kalia Yang

Book Overview

Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in the Picture Book Category

"Father, is all of the world a refugee camp?"

Young Kalia has never known life beyond the fences of the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp. The Thai camp holds many thousands of Hmong families who fled in the aftermath of the little-known Secret War in Laos that was waged during America's Vietnam War. For Kalia and her cousins,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 154158130X
• ISBN13: 9781541581302
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.3" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4