Journey Home (Revised)
A biracial girl gains a new sense of identity when she travels to Vietnam with her mother.
Mai is excited about traveling to Vietnam with her mother. Mom wants to search for her birth family and Mai wants to help solve the mystery.
Mai has never been to her mother's homeland, and she wonders what being there will reveal. Will learning about her mother's past help her gain a new sense of identity? Is her "real" home in America or Vietnam?
What Mai discovers about her past will change her life forever. Journey Home is a story for all Americans who, like Mai, want to learn more about themselves through their family histories.
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Lawrence McKay is the author of Caravan, which was a Bank Street College Children's Book of the Year selection. He lives in Vermont with his wife and their two children.
Dom Lee made his picture-book debut with Baseball Saved Us. He grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and went on to illustrate books in both the United States and Korea. His titles for Lee & Low include Ken Mochizuki's Passage to Freedom and Heroes, as well as the award-winning Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds. Lee's unique illustration style involves applying encaustic beeswax on paper, then scratching out images, and finally coloring the images with oil paint. Lee and his wife live in Hollis, New York.
Keunhee Lee is a contributing illustrator for America: My Land, Your Land, Our Land. Dom and Keunhee Lee live in Demarest, New Jersey, with their two children.
"Subdued and affecting. . . The Lees' realistic art, by turns brightly lighted and almost oppressively dark, seamlessly matches the changing moods of the text. [W]ill engage anyone interested in Vietnam or adoption." -- Publishers Weekly
"[E]normously touching book" -- Kirkus Reviews
"Like Allen Say's Grandfather's Journey (1993), this will encourage readers to ask about their own family stories of the journey home." -- Booklist
"Appeal[s]. . . because of its ultimate truths about family and home." -- Hungry Mind Review
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