Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
by Warren, Andrea
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award/Honor BookBiographies/AutobiographiesAsiaVietnamAdoptionVietnam War EraCoop. Children's Book CenterWheatley Aligned Supplemental Texts
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AR Book Level
6.2
AR Points
4
Word Count
22,890
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
79911 EN
About this book
This book chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.