Author & Developmental Editor
The editors at Pomelo Books –Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong–shared one of MY poems in their video today: “Happy Noon Year.”
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Booktalk: Celebrate all year long with The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations –156 poems in English and Spanish ideal for PreK – grade 6 teachers and librarians.
Happy Noon Year — and Happy NEW Year — to all!
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House Without Walls
by Ching Yeung Russell (Author)
Booktalk: For most people, home is a place with four walls. It’s a place to eat, sleep, rest, and live. For a refugee, the concept of home is ever-changing, ever-moving, ever-wavering. And often, it doesn’t have any walls at all.
Eleven-year-old Lam escapes from Vietnam with Dee Dee during the Vietnamese Boat People Exodus in 1979, when people from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fled their homelands for safety. For a refugee, the trip is a long and perilous one, filled with dangerous encounters with pirates and greedy sailors, a lack of food and water, and even the stench of a dead body onboard. When they finally arrive at a refugee camp, Lam befriends Dao, a girl her age who becomes like a sister–a welcome glimmer of happiness after a terrifying journey.
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