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Description
Dressed in their traditional New Year clothes, Astrid and Apollo attend the Hmong New Year Festival. While at the noisy and jam-packed celebration, they accidentally become separated from their family and end up lost in the crowds. Follow along on their adventure as they try to find their way back to their mom, dad, and little sister, Eliana.
Publication date
August 01, 2020
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781515861294
Lexile Measure
500
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Series
Astrid and Apollo
Universe
Astrid and Apollo
BISAC categories
JUV011020 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Asian American JUV013070 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings JUV017080 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Other, Non-Religious
Library of Congress categories
Brothers and sisters Lost children Twins Festivals Hmong Americans Ethnic festivals Hmong American children Hmong American families Hmong New Year
V.T. Bidania was born in Laos and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has an MFA in creative writing from The New School and is a McKnight Artist Fellow. She is the author of the ASTRID AND APOLLO series, the first children's book series to star Hmong American characters, and A YEAR WITHOUT A HOME, a fictionalized memoir in verse about her family's escape from Laos at the end of the Vietnam War.
