Contents: Connections: So many languages (autobiographical essay) / by Minfong Ho --Teenage refugees from Cambodia speak out / as told to Stephanie St. Pierre --Tithra: lucky to be alive (interview) --Ban: born in a refugee camp (interview) --The old demon (short story) / by Pearl S. Buck --Not enough Emilys (poem) / by Jean Little --The bamboo beads (short story) / by Lynn
Chapters 9, 10 and 11 Summary. Chapter nine: Dara retraces her footsteps back to the edges of Nong Chan, where she finds a few scattered refugee families settled down for the night. She searches for her own family but finds no sign of them, eventually settling down for the night in the shadow of a gnarled old tree, clasping Jantu's marble for ...
The Clay Marble A family in war-torn Cambodia attempts to begin again Clay Marble is a novel set in war-torn Cambodia in 1980, after the fall of the communist regime Khmer Rouge. The main characters, Dara and Sarun, flee their crumbling village in Siem Reap and head to a refugee camp on the border of Cambodia and Thailand, hoping to get ...
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The Clay Marble Minfong Ho "Here is a moving and sensitive account told by someone who worked at camps on the Thai-Cambodian border. It is the story of families torn from their homes but bound by a love and determination that even war could not destroy." --Parents Magazine The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho Holt Mcdougal
Clay Marble is a novel set in war-torn Cambodia in 1980, after the fall of the communist regime Khmer Rouge. The main characters, Dara and Sarun, flee their crumbling village in Siem Reap and head to a refugee camp on the border of Cambodia and Thailand, hoping to get supplies and food to help them start over.