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Vander Zee, Ruth.
ALWAYS WITH YOU
Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2008
IL 3-6, RL 2.8
ISBN 0802852955
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 As the bombs fall around their home, Kim's mother tells her to remember that she will always be with her.  When the fighting ends, Kim's mother is gone and Kim has suffered a head injury that damages her eyesight.  Soldiers bring her to the orphanage. There is not enough food, bombs explode in the distance and Kim cannot see very well.  But this is her new home.  Will her mother's words help her adjust?
SUBJECTS:     Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
                        Orphans -- Fiction.
                        Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975 -- Fiction.

 
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