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Author: Rob Alcraft
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
Publishing Date: Rev Upd Edition, August 16, 2008
Paperback: 32 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1432912968
ISBN-13: 978-1432912963
Format: Library Binding, Paperback
Series: Visit to...
Reading level: Ages 6 and up
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Cambodia (Visit to...)

By Admin | Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Author: Frederick Lipp, Ronald Himler (Illustrator)
Publisher: Holiday House
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, March 2001
Hardcover: 32 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0823415341
ISBN-13: 978-0823415342
Format: Hardcover
Reading level: Ages 5 and up
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The Caged Birds of Phnom Penh

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Author: Michelle Lord
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Publishing Date: March 30, 2008
Hardcover: 32 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1600601391
ISBN-13: 978-1600601392
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
When Arn was a young boy in Cambodia, his days were filled with love, laughter, and the sweet sounds of music. That all changed suddenly in 1975 when Arn's village was invaded by Khmer Rouge soldiers and his family was torn apart.

Nine-year-old Arn was taken to a children's work camp, where he labored long hours in the rice fields under the glaring eyes of threatening soldiers. Overworked, underfed, and in constant fear for his life, Arn had to find a way to survive. When guards asked for volunteers to play music one day, Arn bravely raised his hand-taking a chance that would change the course of his life.

A Song for Cambodia is the inspirational true story of Arn Chorn-Pond. His heartfelt music created beauty in a time of darkness and turned tragedy into healing.

A Song for Cambodia

By Admin | Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Author: Loung Ung
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publishing Date: April 4, 2006
Paperback: 288 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060856262
ISBN-13: 978-0060856267
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio, CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged, Audible Audio Edition, Unabridged
Series: P.S.
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Book Description
One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By Admin | Sunday, December 18, 2011

Author: Loung Ung
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publishing Date: April 11, 2006
Paperback: 268 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060733950
ISBN-13: 978-0060733957
Format: Kindle Edition, Library Binding, Paperback
Series: P.S.
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Book Description
After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds.

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind

By Admin | Saturday, December 17, 2011

Author: Dith Pran
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publishing Date: April 10, 1999
Paperback: 224 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300078730
ISBN-13: 978-0300078732
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover, Paperback
Series: Southeast Asia Studies
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Book Description
This extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia during Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, accounts written by survivors who were children at the time. The book has been put together by Dith Pran, whose own experiences in Cambodia were so graphically portrayed in the film The Killing Fields.

The testimonies related here bear poignant witness to the slaughter the Khmer Rouge inflicted on the Cambodian people. The contributors -- most of them now in the United States and pictured in photographs that accompany their stories -- report on life in Democratic Kampuchea as seen through children's eyes. They speak of their bewilderment and pain as Khmer Rouge cadres tore their families apart, subjected them to harsh brainwashing, drove them from their homes to work in forced-labor camps, and executed captives in front of them. Their stories tell of suffering and the loss of innocence, the struggle to survive against all odds, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.

Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors

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