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Shea, Pegi Deitz.
THE WHISPERING CLOTH : A REFUGEE'S STORY
Honesdale, PA : Boyds Mills Press, 1996.
IL K-3, RL 3.6
ISBN 1563976234
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As Mai waits with her Grandmother in a refugee camp, she passes the time by learning to embroider.  She wants to make a pa'ndau, a traditional story cloth.  As she forms the pictures on the cloth, she remembers her life and the bad things that have happened.  Will she find some good memories to stitch into her cloth as well?
SUBJECTS:     Hmong (Asian people) -- Fiction.
                        Refugee camps -- Thailand -- Fiction.
                        Refugee children -- Thailand -- Fiction.
                        Sewing -- Fiction.

 
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