Goodbye, Vietnam

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Summary: Escape for a good life and freedom
Review: A 13 years old,Mai,and her family-father,mother, grandmother,her sister and brother-left their country,Vietnam,because the government wanted to arrest the grandmother and wanted the people work for them instead go to school,etc.Mai and her family left Veitnam by boat which had a lot of people.they spent a long time in the boat and lots of situations happened in that boat.Finally they found the land,Hong Kong,that they met other people from Vietmam.They stayed in the warehouse with other thousands people.It was a bad time there,however they could go to USA by supporting of their close reletive.

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Summary: A good book-Goodbye, Vietnam
Review: A family is leaving Vietnam with a foolish captian on a boat to Hong Kong. Mai, a thirteen year old girl leaves with her brother Thant, who since he is the only boy of the family, gets specially treated. Mai also travels with her sister Anh who is the youngest of the family. This is a wonderful book which everyone should read.

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Summary: Good Book To Read
Review: Goodbye Vietnam was the saddest book I ever read. It was so moving, I wanted to cry. I say the best chapter is called "The Voyage." This book is similar to my mom and dad's life because my mom and dad also escaped from Vietnam. So that makes me from Vietnam, too. This book is tragic when Mai's family almost didn't make it to the U.S.A. Why did Mai's family try to escape from Vietnam? They escaped Vietnam because there was a war. Well I don't want to spoil the ending, so go read it.

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Summary: Goodbye,Vietnam
Review: Goodbye Vietnam would be a good book for children or adults interested in history.I for instance am interested in books about history i rated this book with only 3 stars because i feel they dont talk enough about what is important in this book. With this book things need to be explained more about what is happening.

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Summary: Goodbye,Vietnam
Review: Goodbye Vietnam would be a good book for children or adults interested in history.I for instance am interested in books about history i rated this book with only 3 stars because i feel they dont talk enough about what is important in this book. With this book things need to be explained more about what is happening.

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Summary: For young readers.
Review: I believe that this book is good for children because it explains things like sacrifice, suffering, and courage clearly. If a child reads this book, he or she will be interested because the principal character (a 13 years old) is telling the story. So, young readers can feel good witn this book, and also they learn about the true meaning of life. Finally, I would recomended that all children read this fantastic story.

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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I first got interested in Vietnam at the age of 7. My eldest sister's husband was born in Vietnam. From everything he and his family has told me about it, it is 110% acurrate. It is very special to me because of my brother-in-laws life there. HE escaped Vietnam, and it is true how they live on platforms. Anyway, it's an awesome book. It is amongst the best books I've ever read.

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Summary: get life!!!
Review: I really like this story very much. Because there are much type of life, love, sad, grad, die, newlife in this story. Before I read this story, I didn't know about Vietam War well. Mai's family and other Vietnammese people were left their own place. When I thoght "why they had to Escape?"I was so sad. Because when I lived in my country(Japan), I nevre have this cituation. Because there are no more war right now. I think this story is very good for my generation.I could about war and refugees. Also I could know to live is not easy. So Japanese young guy's are should readthis book! Anyway thank you for your recommend this book Mr.Nicholas!!!

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Summary: This book is sad yet happy at the same time.
Review: I thouraly enjoyed this book my favorite character was kim Because she was so bold and up front it was hard not to admire her courage and zest for life. The only problem with the book is that there is not enough description in this book is a 5 star book. I thought chapter 11 was sad. I highly recomrnd this book

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Summary: it's pretty good
Review: it's pretty good. it's really descriptive, and you could relate to the characters. it's not 100% authentic in its portrayal of vietnamese people though.