(2) YA First Person Fiction series. Nakri's sheltered childhood ends abruptly when the Khmer Rouge evacuate her city of Phnom Penh. The book follows Nakri through four years in a labor camp, then her family's escape to Thailand and eventual immigration to America. Ho communicates heartbreakingly how, halfway around the world in Philadelphia, hearing Cambodian music gradually gives Nakri back the sweetness of her lost childhood. Reviewed in the Horn Book Magazine as Gathering the Dew, 5/03.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom

(3) YA First Person Fiction series. Ostensibly a story of growing up Korean American, this fictionalized memoir is as much a picture of mid-1970s middle-class American life, Star Wars and all. First in Memphis and then in Houston, Jin-Han's immigrant family tries for the American dream by running wig stores in black neighborhoods. Son adroitly blends the theme of assimilation with detail attentive to the particulars of Jin-Han's boyhood.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton

(2) YA First Person Fiction series. The two books in this new series give narrative life to the American immigrant experience. In both novels, a thirteen-year-old protagonist records in her diary her feelings about, in Flight, leaving Cuba for Miami in 1967 or, in Mountains, leaving Haiti for New York in 2000. The excellence of the writing and the resilient outlook of both first-person fictions set a high standard for this series. [Review covers these First Person Fiction titles: Behind the Mountains and Flight to Freedom.]

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2003

(2) YA First Person Fiction series. The two books in this new series give narrative life to the American immigrant experience. In both novels, a thirteen-year-old protagonist records in her diary her feelings about, in Flight, leaving Cuba for Miami in 1967 or, in Mountains, leaving Haiti for New York in 2000. The excellence of the writing and the resilient outlook of both first-person fictions set a high standard for this series. [Review covers these First Person Fiction titles: Behind the Mountains and Flight to Freedom.]

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2003