Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival

by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Book Overview

The award-winning first picture book to recount the dramatic true story of a refugee family's perilous escape from Vietnam.

It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded with 60 Vietnamese refugees drifts. The motor has failed; the hull is leaking; the drinking water is nearly gone. This is the dramatic true story recounted by Tuan Ho, who was six years old when he, his mother, and two sisters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772780057
• ISBN13: 9781772780055
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Pajama Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.6" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4