Bamboo people : a novel

Summary: Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-smart Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. When Chiko is forced into the army by trickery, he must find the courage to survive the mental and physical punishment meted out by the training facility's menacing captain. Tu Reh can't forget the image of the Burmese soldiers burning his home and the bamboo fields of his oppressed Karenni people, one of the many ethnic minorities in Burma. Now living in a Karenni refugee camp on the Thai border, Tu Reh is consumed by anger and the need for revenge. He can't wait to join his father and the Karenni resistance in the effort to protect their people. Chiko and Tu Reh's stories come to a violent intersection as each boy is sent on his first mission into the jungle. Extreme circumstances and unlikely friendships force each boy to confront what it means to be a man of his people.

Item details

ISBN: 9781580893282
ISBN: 1580893287
ISBN: 9781580893299
ISBN: 1580893295
Physical Description: print
272 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, ©2010.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket
Target Audience Note:	680L Lexile Sentence length: 3 (medium) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader MG 4.4 7.0.
Awards Note:	Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2011 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Honor, Children's Literature Honor, 2010-2011

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