Bamboo People - Mitali Perkins 电子书mobi+epub
Reading age : 12 - 15 years
Lexile measure : 680L
Grade level : 7 - 9
Publisher : Charlesbridge; Reprint edition (July 1, 2012)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1580893295
ISBN-13 : 978-1580893299
Bamboo People Paperback – July 1, 2012
by Mitali Perkins (Author)
Junior Library Guild Selection
Top Ten ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
Starred Reviews in PW and School Library Journal
Book Page's Top Ten Middle Grade Novel
Bang! A side door bursts open.
Soldiers pour into the room. They're shouting and waving rifles.
I shield my head with my arms. It was a lie! I think, my mind racing.
Girls and boys alike are screaming. The soldiers prod and herd some of us together and push the rest apart as if we're cows or goats.
Their leader, though, is a middle-aged man. He's moving slowly, intently, not dashing around like the others. "Take the boys only, Win Min," I overhear him telling a tall, gangly soldier. "Make them obey."
Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-loving Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. Tu Reh, on the other hand, wants to fight for freedom after watching Burmese soldiers destroy his Karenni family's home and bamboo fields. Timidity becomes courage and anger becomes compassion as each boy is changed by unlikely friendships formed under extreme circumstances.
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