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Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Publishing Group Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kalia will never tell her mother about the moment she decided to stop speaking English. There is a rock in her throat, and it grows heavier by the day.
In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a young Hmong refugee in the United States navigating two cultures and two languages. She sees what happens as her parents enter the English-speaking world and are met with rudeness and disrespect. And in a silent act of rebellion,...