• Escaping the Tiger

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    Escaping the Tiger
    Laura Manivong
    HarperCollins, 2010
    Fiction
    ISBN: 0061661775
    224 pages

    Synopsis

    When you’re so skinny people call you Skeleton Boy, how do you find strength for the fight of your life?
    Twelve-year-old Vonlai knows that soldiers who guard the Mekong River shoot at anything that moves, but in oppressive Communist Laos, there’s nothing left for him, his spirited sister, Dalah, and his desperate parents. Their only hope is a refugee camp in Thailand—on the other side of the river.

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