A Different Pond

By: Bao Phi, 

Age: 4+  | Published by: Capstone Young Readers

ISBN: 9781623708030

"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--

Keywords: 
early morning,  family,  father-son relationship,  financial hardship,  fishing,  fishing for food,  immigrant,  immigration,  memory,  refugee,  USA,  Vietnam,  Vietnam War 1955-1975,  Vietnamese-American,