Age
12+
Grade
6-9
Mitali Perkins
Bamboo People
Hardcover
(Charlesbridge July 1, 2010)
, New edition
Junior Library Guild Selection
Top Ten ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
Starred Reviews in PW and School Library JournalBook Page's Top Ten Middle Grace NovelBang! A side door bursts open.
Soldiers pour into the room. They're shouting and waving rifles.
I shield my head with my arms. It was a lie! I think, my mind racing.
Girls and boys alike are screaming. The soldiers prod and herd some of us together and push the rest apart as if we're cows or goats.
Their leader, though, is a middle-aged man. He's moving slowly, intently, not dashing around like the others. "Take the boys only, Win Min," I overhear him telling a tall, gangly soldier. "Make them obey."
Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-loving Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. Tu Reh, on the other hand, wants to fight for freedom after watching Burmese soldiers destroy his Karenni family's home and bamboo fields. Timidity becomes courage and anger becomes compassion as each boy is changed by unlikely friendships formed under extreme circumstances.
Top Ten ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
Starred Reviews in PW and School Library JournalBook Page's Top Ten Middle Grace NovelBang! A side door bursts open.
Soldiers pour into the room. They're shouting and waving rifles.
I shield my head with my arms. It was a lie! I think, my mind racing.
Girls and boys alike are screaming. The soldiers prod and herd some of us together and push the rest apart as if we're cows or goats.
Their leader, though, is a middle-aged man. He's moving slowly, intently, not dashing around like the others. "Take the boys only, Win Min," I overhear him telling a tall, gangly soldier. "Make them obey."
Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-loving Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. Tu Reh, on the other hand, wants to fight for freedom after watching Burmese soldiers destroy his Karenni family's home and bamboo fields. Timidity becomes courage and anger becomes compassion as each boy is changed by unlikely friendships formed under extreme circumstances.
- Series
- AWARDS: Young Hoosier Middle Grades Awards 2012-2013
- ISBN
- 9781580893 / 9781580893282
- Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 12.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.8 x 1.0 in.
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