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Author:

Ung, Loung.

Title:

First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers / Loung Ung.

Edition:

1st Harper Perennial ed.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

2006, c2000

Description:

238 p. : ill., geneal. table, map ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Ung, Loung.
Political atrocities--Cambodia.
Cambodia--Politics and government--1975-1979.

Summary:

Loung Ung, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official in Phnom Penh, tells of her experiences after her family was forced to flee from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army, discussing her training as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, and telling of how her surviving siblings were eventually reunited.

Indexed by:

Booklist starred, December 1999
Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), May 2004
Kirkus Review, December 1999
Library Journal, January 2000
Multicultural Review, December 2001
Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2001
Publisher's Weekly, January 2000
School Library Journal, July 2000
Teacher Librarian, April 2003
Wilson's High School Catalog, November 2002

ISBN:

9780060856267
0060856262

Locations:

JYPB641 -- Albion Municipal Library (Albion)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

VPPC384 -- Kling Memorial Library (Grundy Center)

ZSPC475 -- Stubbs Memorial Library (Holstein) — 959.604

HOPC845 -- Hull Public Library (Hull)

POSX851 -- Ballard Community High School (Huxley)

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

KQPC446 -- Winfield Public Library (Winfield)