Butterfly Yellow
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Butterfly Yellow
By (Author) Thanhh Lai
University of Queensland Press
University of Queensland Press
3rd March 2020
Australia
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Physical Properties
Paperback
296
Width 129mm, Height 195mm, Spine 24mm
284g
Description
The topical young adult debut by National Book Award and Newbery Honor-winning author Thanhha Lai. Hang doesn't believe in adventures. There are steps that must be done, and once done, another step awaits. The last step, after six years of minute planning by her grandmother, is a bus ride away. In A-ma-ri-lo her baby brother has to be waiting. In her imaginings, he is always waiting. National Book Award and Newbery Honor-winning author Thanhh Li makes her young adult debut in this deeply moving story of courage, redemption, friendship, family and new beginnings.
Author Bio
Thanhh L_x1EA1_i is a Vietnamese-American writer of middle-grade and young adult novels. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and daughter. Her dog Pico assists her by stepping directly onto the keys of her computer as she types. Her first novel, Inside Out & Back Again (2011), which won the National Book Award and a Newbery Honor, was partly based on her childhood as a refugee growing up in the southern United States. Other books include Listen, Slowly (2015) and Butterfly Yellow (2019), her YA debut. Hundred Years of Happiness (2022), Thanhh 's first picture book, is out now.
