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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Weeping Under This Same Moonby: Jana Laiz  List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.90 You Save: $2.10 (15%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Perfect PaperbackEAN: 9780981491004 ISBN: 0981491006 Label: Crow Flies Press Manufacturer: Crow Flies Press Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: May 30, 2008 Publisher: Crow Flies Press Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Crow Flies Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Weeping Under This Same Moon is based on a true story of two teenage girls from different cultures, whose paths intertwine, dramatically altering the course of their lives. Mei is an artist whose life has been disrupted by the Vietnam War. Her anguished parents send her away on a perilous escape during the exodus of thousands of Vietnamese refugees known as Boat People. In Mei's words we learn of the dangers she faces caring for her two younger siblings on a sea journey fraught with hunger, thirst and deprivation, leaving behind everything she loves to find refuge for her family. Hannah is an angry seventeen-year-old American high school student. Friendless, neurotic, a social misfit - her passion for writing and the environment only intensify her outcast state. Through Hannah's voice, we get inside her head, there to discover a gentle soul beneath all the anger and turmoil. When Hannah learns of the plight of the Boat People, she is moved to action. Destiny brings Mei and Hannah together in celebration of culture and language, food and friendship, and the ultimate rescue of both young women from their own despair. Weeping Under This Same Moon is a testament to the power of love and the spirit of volunteerism; affirming that doing for others does so much for one's self. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A book for absolutely everyoneI loved this book from first page to last, and was truly sorry to finish it. Weeks later, it's still part of my everyday thoughts and life. The characters are so honest, their stories so compelling, and their voices so perfectly realized by Jana Laiz that I feel as though I live in the book with them, even now. The story is a startling one to those of us who live unperturbed by the kind of random upheaval that war brings - a family torn apart, children sent into the vastness of the ocean in ... Read More Rating: - and so as the stone does not always know what ripples it has caused in the pond whose surface it impacts.....With a sense of heartbreak and hope, I was inspired by the spirit of Hannah. Hannah a struggling teen, and forward thinking young woman, saw through the blindfolds of racial injustice and chose to follow her heart. The story is written in such a way that I felt the pain of human suffering, yet I also felt the humor that made me laugh, and the warmth of the loving characters. The characters are courageous survivors, loving families quietly suffering in a foreign land connected to ... Read More Rating: - A beautiful friendship"Weeping Under the Same Moon" should be required reading for any disaffected teen (that just about covers all of them). Kids always think they are the only ones who've ever felt misunderstood, who have parents who don't "get" them, who feel like their peers are judging them harshly. Hannah, the young American heroine of this book is cranky, judgemental, unhappy, yet filled with good intentions. It is only when she finds a place where she can make a difference - in this case, in the lives of a Vietnamese ... Read More Rating: - The human spirit at it's best!!!!!Jana has opened my eyes to a culture and a people I knew nothing about. I never thought of the pain and suffering it took for these people to reach our shores. I am glad they did because they have brought a lot to our society. I cried at the human suffering and how we could let this happen. Through all of this Jana found herself. I could not put it down. Please keep writing. Thank You!!!! Gail Curran Prince Edward Island Canada Rating: - Connecting Three GenerationsA friend passed this book to me saying that it was a fast, good read. Unpacking my bag, I laid it on the bed where my young granddaughter casually opened it - and never put it down. I asked her what she liked about it. She told me it ranks among her elite group of favorite books but she couldn't(wouldn't?)tell me why. Her mother then read it, describing it as a lovely story of tolerance and growing up. Reading a passage from the book to my 4 accomplished agemates, describing Hannah's feelings about her ... Read More 
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