Escape from Saigon
Subtitle: a Vietnam War orphan becomes an American boy
By: Andrea Warren.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Steiner, Matt -- Juvenile literature.; Steiner, Matt.; Vietnamese Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Adopted children -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Orphans -- Vietnam -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Children -- Juvenile literature.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Refugees -- Juvenile literature.; Vietnamese Americans -- Biography.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Children.; Intercountry adoption.; Interracial adoption.; Adoption.; Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: "Melanie Kroupa books."