vietnamese americans

Presents a short history of the Vietnamese immigrant experience in the U.S. and includes brief biographies of various Vietnamese Americans, including humanitarian Le Ly Hayslip, astronaut Eugene H. Trinh, assistant U.S. attorney general Viet D. Dinh, television journalist Betty Nguyen, comedian Dat Phan, professional football player Dat Nguyen, and actress Maggie Q.

Describes the historical background, culture, struggles, and achievements of Vietnamese Americans, discusses their challenges for the future, and includes study questions, a time line, and a further reading list with Web sites.

Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.

Huong Ngo, a Vietnamese boy who has immigrated to the U.S. with his parents, learns the sad truth about an alleged wildman who lives in the forest when he is forced to call upon the man for help to free his friend from a dangerous cave.

Mai travels to Vietnam, the land of her mother's birth, to discover both a new country and something about herself.

A collection of nineteen survival stories by South Vietnamese refugees who escaped after the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Describes the lives of eight teenagers from Vietnam, why they left their homeland, and how they adapted to life in the United States.

When his folks host a Vietnamese family that has come to settle in their town, Harvey enjoys Americanizing twelve-year-old Tuan.

After living in California for five years, Anh welcomes her cousin Lan, a Vietnamese refugee, and tries to help Lan come to terms with the terrible events in her past.

A color-illustrated overview of Vietnam that covers its land, climate, culture, economy, and history and includes a section on Vietnamese Americans and a guide to related links on the book's companion Web site.