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Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War

110 pp. | Pajama | March, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-9869495-4-8 $17.95
(2) 4-6 In 1975 Saigon, missionaries evacuated vulnerable disabled orphans who would be killed; Tuyet, eight, lame from polio, helps get over fifty tiny orphans flown to Canada, where she shows new caregivers how to comfort them. Skrypuch's third-person re-creation of these transitional months makes vivid the uncertainties of confronting a new language, climate, and family. Illustrated with photos. Reading list, websites. Ind.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2012

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