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Bamboo People

Bamboo People

Junior Library Guild Selection
Nominated for ALA's Best Fiction for Young Adults
Starred Reviews in PW and School Library Journal
Book Page's Top Ten MG Novel of 2010
Bang! A side door bursts open.

Soldiers pour into the room. They're shouting and waving rifles.

I shield my head with my arms. It was a lie! I think, my mind racing.

Girls and boys alike are screaming. The soldiers prod and herd some of us together and push the rest apart as if we're cows or goats.

Their leader, though, is a middle-aged man. He's moving slowly, intently, not dashing around like the others. "Take the boys only, Win Min," I overhear him telling a tall, gangly soldier. "Make them obey."

Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-loving Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. Tu Reh, on the other hand, wants to fight for freedom after watching Burmese soldiers destroy his Karenni family's home and bamboo fields. Timidity becomes courage and anger becomes compassion as each boy is changed by unlikely friendships formed under extreme circumstances.
Country USA
Brand Charlesbridge
Manufacturer Charlesbridge
Binding Hardcover
PartNumber FBA-|282691
Height 8.56
Length 5.75
Weight 1.04940036712
Width 1
ReleaseDate 2010-07-01
NumberOfItems 1

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