Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story

10 best books like Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story (Pegi Deitz Shea): M. Butterfly, Inside Out & Back Again, Louisiana's Way Home, Lily and Dunkin, Southland, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, The Quilt Walk, Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense, The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings, And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students

M. Butterfly

Author	David Henry Hwang
ISBN	0822207125

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen

"A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds."--Frank...

Inside Out & Back Again

Author	Thanhha Lai
ISBN	0061962783

For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America,...

Louisiana's Way Home

Author	Kate DiCamillo
ISBN	0763694630

From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are — and deciding who you want to be.

When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana...

Lily and Dunkin

Author	Donna Gephart
ISBN	0553536745

Author Donna Gephart crafts a dual narrative about two remarkable young people: Lily, a transgender girl, and Dunkin, a boy dealing with bipolar disorder.

Sometimes our hearts see things our eyes can’t.

Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not...

Southland

Author	Nina Revoyr
ISBN	1888451416

"[A]n absolutely compelling story of family and racial tragedy. Revoyr’s novel is honest in detailing southern California’s brutal history, and honorable in showing how families survived with love and tenacity and dignity."
—Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon

Southland...

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Author

Elyn R. Saks

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis—and suffering the effects of her illness throughout...

The Quilt Walk

Author	Sandra Dallas
ISBN	1585368008

It's 1863 and 10-year-old Emmy Blue Hatchett has been told by her father that soon their family will leave their farm, family, and friends in Illinois, and travel west to a new home in Colorado. It's difficult leaving family and friends behind. They might not see one another ever again. When Emmy's grandmother...

Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense

Author	Bruce Lee
ISBN	0897501128

Originally published in 1963, this book includes personal testimonies regarding the author and his art from James Y. Lee, the legendary Ed Parker, and jujutsu icon Wally Jay. Through hand-drawn diagrams and captioned photo sequences, Lee’s text comes to life as he demonstrates a variety of training...

The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings

Author	Saikaku Ihara
ISBN	0811201872

[From back.]
One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world — the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by an aging beauty whose highly erotic nature...

And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students

Author	Miles Corwin
ISBN	0380798298

Bestselling author of The Killing Season and veteran Los Angeles Times reporter Miles Corwin spent a school year with twelve high school seniors -- South-Central kids who qualified for a gifted program because of their exceptional IQs and test scores. Sitting alongside them in classrooms where bullets...