- Verse novels, Vietnam War, North Vietnamese Army, Juvenile fiction
Inside Out & Back Again is a verse novel by Thanhha Lai. The book was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and one of the two Newbery Honors. The novel was based on her first year in the United States, as a ten-year-old girl who spoke no English in 1975.
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- Thanhha Lai
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 276
- Publisher
- Yunnan chu ban ji tuan gong si, Thorndike Press Large Print, University of Queensland Press
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780061962783
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