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Inside Out and Back Again Thanhha Lai
Publisher: HarperCollins

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Date: 2011. In this column she discusses her writing process. Cover art for Inside Out and Back Again I have good news. Inside Out and Back Again, published by Harper Collins, is her first novel, inspired by her own experiences as a Vietnamese who immigrated to Alabama. Junior Fiction: “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanhha Lai, “Collision Course” by Greg Farshtey and “Bigger Than a Bread Box” by Laurel Snyder. For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But let me say first that I share no common experience with Lai, or any of the experiences depicted in Inside Out and Back Again. In 1975, ten-year-old H� flees from Saigon with her mother and three older brothers. Nikki Grimes is an author of fiction and poetry who has received five Coretta Scott King Book Award recognitions. As of the beginning of January 2013, Inside and Out & Back Again is available in a paperback edition.