Kao Kalia Yang

La Roca En Mi Garganta (the Rock in My Throat)

Illustrator: Lin, Jiemei

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Produktbeschreibung

"In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a Hmong refugee child navigating life at home and school in America while carrying the weight of her selective mutism. Now in Spanish"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lerner Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Spanisch
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9798765660867
• Artikelnr.: 70997873

Autorenporträt

Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong American writer, teacher and public speaker. Born in the refugee camps of Thailand to a family that escaped the genocide of the Secret War in Laos, she came to America at the age six. Yang holds degrees from Carleton College and Columbia University. Her work includes creative nonfiction, poetry, and children's books such as A Map into the World, The Shared Room, and From the Tops of the Trees. Her work has won numerous awards and recognition including multiple Minnesota Book Awards, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor, an ALA Notable Children's Book Award, the 2023 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Dayton's Literary Peace Prize, and a PEN USA Award in Nonfiction.