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Bamboo people : a novel
- Title
- Bamboo people : a novel / Mitali Perkins.
- Author
- Perkins, Mitali
- Publication
- Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, ©2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 11-1132 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 272 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-smart Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. When Chiko is forced into the army by trickery, he must find the courage to survive the mental and physical punishment meted out by the training facility's menacing captain. Tu Reh can't forget the image of the Burmese soldiers burning his home and the bamboo fields of his oppressed Karenni people, one of the many ethnic minorities in Burma. Now living in a Karenni refugee camp on the Thai border, Tu Reh is consumed by anger and the need for revenge. He can't wait to join his father and the Karenni resistance in the effort to protect their people. Chiko and Tu Reh's stories come to a violent intersection as each boy is sent on his first mission into the jungle. Extreme circumstances and unlikely friendships force each boy to confront what it means to be a man of his people.
- Subject
- Boys > Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction
- Refugees > Juvenile fiction
- Jungles > Juvenile fiction
- Dissenters > Juvenile fiction
- Physicians > Juvenile fiction
- Courage > Juvenile fiction
- Friendship in adolescence > Juvenile fiction
- Trust > Juvenile fiction
- Survival > Juvenile fiction
- Survival > Fiction
- Boys > Conduct of life
- Friendship in adolescence
- Courage
- Dissenters
- Jungles
- Physicians
- Refugees
- Survival
- Trust
- Burma > Juvenile fiction
- Burma > Fiction
- Burma
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Young adult works.
- Young adult fiction.
- Note
- "A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket.
- Awards (note)
- Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2011
- Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Honor, Children's Literature Honor, 2010-2011
- Call Number
- JFD 11-1132
- ISBN
- 9781580893282
- 1580893287
- LCCN
- 2009005495
- OCLC
- 314112738
- Author
- Perkins, Mitali, author.
- Title
- Bamboo people : a novel / Mitali Perkins.
- Imprint
- Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, ©2010.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2011Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Honor, Children's Literature Honor, 2010-2011
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-1132