The Hmong - Children's Fiction Books

This booklist includes materials in: Hmong, English and Bilingual Hmong/English. Visit the Appleton Public Library Hmong Resource Center to learn more about this collection.

This booklist was contributed by Appleton Public Library Children's Services Staff , 1/09 

Child Fiction

Lana's Lakota moons by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve(2007)Cousins Lori and Lana, Lakota Indians who have a close but competitive relationship, learn about their heritage and culture throughout the year, and when a Laotian-Hmong girl comes to their school, they make friends with her and "adopt" her as one of their own.

Little Cricket by Jackie Brown(2004)Also located in the Hmong resource center. After the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, twelve-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually to the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Tangled threads : a Hmong girl's story by Pegi Deitz Shea

After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.