My father, the panda killer /
Hoang, Jamie Jo
My father, the panda killer / Jamie Jo Hoang. - First edition. - 361 pages ; 22 cm
"San Jose, 1999. Jane knows her Vietnamese dad can't control his temper. Lost in a stupid daydream, she forgot to pick up her seven-year-old brother, Paul, from school. Inside their home, she hands her dad the stick he hits her with. This is how it's always been. She deserves this. Not because she forgot to pick up Paul, but because at the end of the summer she's going to leave him when she goes away to college. As Paul retreats inward, Jane realizes she must explain where their dad's anger comes from. The problem is, she doesn't quite understand it herself. �� N�ng, 1975. P�hc (pronounced /fo^ok/, rhymes with duke) is eleven the first time his mother walks him through a field of mines he's always been warned never to enter. Guided by cracks of moonlight, P�hc moves past fallen airplanes and battle debris to a refugee boat. But before the sun even has a chance to rise, more than half the people aboard will perish. This is only the beginning of P�hc's perilous journey across the Pacific, which will be fraught with Thai pirates, an unrelenting ocean, starvation, hallucination, and the unfortunate murder of a panda. Told in the alternating voices of Jane and P�hc, My Father, The Panda Killer is an unflinching story about war and its impact across multiple generations, and how one American teenager forges a path toward accepting her heritage and herself" --
Ages 14 and up. Crown Books. Grades 10-12. Crown Books.
9780593642962 0593642961 9780593642979 059364297X
2023009872
Fathers and daughters--Juvenile fiction
Vietnamese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
Boat people--Vietnam--Juvenile fiction.
Generational trauma--Juvenile fiction.
Asian American teenagers--Juvenile fiction.
Domestic fiction
Historical fiction
Novels
Young adult fiction.
PZ7.1.H5978 / My 2023
[Fic]
My father, the panda killer / Jamie Jo Hoang. - First edition. - 361 pages ; 22 cm
"San Jose, 1999. Jane knows her Vietnamese dad can't control his temper. Lost in a stupid daydream, she forgot to pick up her seven-year-old brother, Paul, from school. Inside their home, she hands her dad the stick he hits her with. This is how it's always been. She deserves this. Not because she forgot to pick up Paul, but because at the end of the summer she's going to leave him when she goes away to college. As Paul retreats inward, Jane realizes she must explain where their dad's anger comes from. The problem is, she doesn't quite understand it herself. �� N�ng, 1975. P�hc (pronounced /fo^ok/, rhymes with duke) is eleven the first time his mother walks him through a field of mines he's always been warned never to enter. Guided by cracks of moonlight, P�hc moves past fallen airplanes and battle debris to a refugee boat. But before the sun even has a chance to rise, more than half the people aboard will perish. This is only the beginning of P�hc's perilous journey across the Pacific, which will be fraught with Thai pirates, an unrelenting ocean, starvation, hallucination, and the unfortunate murder of a panda. Told in the alternating voices of Jane and P�hc, My Father, The Panda Killer is an unflinching story about war and its impact across multiple generations, and how one American teenager forges a path toward accepting her heritage and herself" --
Ages 14 and up. Crown Books. Grades 10-12. Crown Books.
9780593642962 0593642961 9780593642979 059364297X
2023009872
Fathers and daughters--Juvenile fiction
Vietnamese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
Boat people--Vietnam--Juvenile fiction.
Generational trauma--Juvenile fiction.
Asian American teenagers--Juvenile fiction.
Domestic fiction
Historical fiction
Novels
Young adult fiction.
PZ7.1.H5978 / My 2023
[Fic]