2018 School Spending Survey Report
The Endless Sea
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Gr 1-4–With the gravitational heft of Thao Lam’s gripping The Paper Boat, Thai writes the tale of a journey to a new country, leaving the details to act as gut punches and grace notes, often spotted only in the dramatic illustrations. “I was born after a long war ended,” opens this memoir, and what readers discover is a child’s beyond-perilous journey with her family from postwar Vietnam to a new life in a small town in the United States. A tiny boat on a huge body of water, the crowded condition of the journey, paying off the people who say they will take the family to safety—all of these affecting details add up to a powerful true story that are the very essence of “finding a way.”
VERDICT Devastating global events weave with the steadying beat of a fugue through cinematic, emotional illustrations; this is history writ large and small, for all readers.
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