Butterfly Yellow
HarperCollins · Paperback · October 13, 2020
Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction!
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- Who it’s for
- A serious, immersive YA read with cultural heft and a steady emotional pulse.
- Genres
- Immigration for Teens, War & Military YA, YA Sibling Stories
- Published
- HarperCollins, October 13, 2020
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Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sánchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again. 4 starred reviews! In the final days of the Việt Nam War, Hằng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determined to find a way to safety in America.
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In a split second, Linh is ripped from her arms—and Hằng is left behind in the war-torn country. Six years later, Hằng has made the brutal journey from Việt Nam and is now in Texas as a refugee. She doesn’t know how she will find the little brother who was taken from her until she meets LeeRoy, a city boy with big rodeo dreams, who decides to help her. Hằng is overjoyed when she reunites with Linh. But when she realizes he doesn’t remember her, their family, or Việt Nam, her heart is crushed. Though the distance between them feels greater than ever, Hằng has come so far that she will do anything to bridge the gap.
Quietly Compelling
A serious, immersive YA read with cultural heft and a steady emotional pulse.
Come here for
- layered coming-of-age texture
- immigration and family-boundary currents
Expect
- sustained narrative focus
- prestige-leaning, thoughtful pacing
Where it sits
| YA Sibling Stories | 56% |
|---|---|
| War & Military YA | 45% |
| Immigration for Teens | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Art & Artists
- Coming of Age
- Diverse YA Fiction
- YA Adoption Stories
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- Multigenerational YA Stories
- YA Sibling Stories
- Asia for Teens
- Contemporary YA Romance
- Authors
- Thanhhà Lai, Thanhhà Lại
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 13, 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- YA Art & Artists