Bibliograph

Escape from Saigon, how a Vietnam War orphan became an American boy, Andrea Warren

Type

Label

Escape from Saigon, how a Vietnam War orphan became an American boy, Andrea Warren

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-104) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmapsportraits

Index

index present

Intended audience

930L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Escape from Saigon

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

53356276

Responsibility statement

Andrea Warren

Sub title

how a Vietnam War orphan became an American boy

Summary

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, his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio, and his return visit to Vietnam

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Prologue -- A little boy all alone -- A new life in Saigon -- At home at Holt -- A family for Long -- No way out -- The crash of the C-5A -- Operation Babylift -- The flight to freedom -- Into the eye of the storm -- A real American boy -- Return to Vietnam -- Afterword

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification