This story is very interesting and keeps you going. It's about a girl who dies, goes to hevean, and works her way back to life. After they die they are basically reborn again, but start at the age the died and work their way back to being a baby. After all of this your life starts over again. At times it weird, but overall it's really good and I think boys or girls will like it. I would recommend this nook to people at least in 6th grade and up otherwise you might not understand it as well.

Beautiful story about a Vietnamese family who flees the country and end up in Alabama. I don't normally like stories in verse, but I thoroughly enjoyed this one.

This story succeeds in reaching its implied goal--to tell us what it's like to be a child in a war-torn country and to be forced to emmigrate to a strange country. Yes, it's told in free-verse style and format, but it's still down-to-earth. Poignant without self-pity, tempered with a bit of humor, Lai's highly autobiographical book will give most American children a view they will never (thankfully) experience first-hand.