young adult literature

TEACHER’S GUIDE: THE MYTH OF KING AN DƯƠNG AND BRANDON HOANG’S THE CROSSBOW OF DESTINY (part 1)

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This summer, I put together a short packet of background reading on Brandon Hoang’s The Crossbow of Destiny for K-12 educators, and I am sharing a slightly revised version of that material here. The young adult novel is about a mixed-race Vietnamese-American girl who returns to her village in Vietnam after years of absence, and […]

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FUN READS: THE ENCROACHMENT OF WAR ON CIVILIAN LIFE IN NHÃ CA’S AT NIGHT I HEAR THE CANNONS (ĐÊM NGHE TIẾNG ĐẠI BÁC)

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Nhã Ca’s At Night I Hear the Cannons (Đêm nghe tiếng đại bác, 1966) poignantly captures the moment when the Vietnam War began encroaching on civilian life in Saigon. Set in the mid-1960s, the novel centers on a northern Vietnamese family of modest means who emigrated to Saigon when the country was divided a decade

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