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DESCRIPTION:Children’s author to close out season series at Lenoir-Rhyne\
 n\nIn its 15th year\, The Little Read will bring nationally recognized chi
 ldren’s author\, Kao Kalia Yang to Lenoir-Rhyne. Concluding the season
 ’s series of events\, Yang\, a Hmong-American writer born in the refugee
  camps of Thailand to a family that escaped the genocide of the Secret War
  in Laos\, came to America at the age six.\n\nShe is the author of “The 
 Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir\,” winner of the 2009 Minnesota Boo
 k Awards in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir and Readers’ Choice\, and “The 
 Song Poet\,” winner of the 2016 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfict
 ion Memoir.\n\nThis fall\, Yang debuted her first children’s book\, “A
  Map Into the World\,” which is also the first literary published childr
 en’s book by a Hmong-American writer centered on a Hmong-American family
 . It is the story of a young Hmong girl’s discovery of the changing seas
 ons of a year and the different seasons of a life. This distinctive story 
 weaves together threads of family life\, community and culture\, the natur
 al world and the power of stories. Yang’s newest children’s book “Th
 e Shared Room” was published in the spring. This fall\, she will release
  two more books – a collective memoir about refugee lives titled “Some
 where in the Unknown World” and another children’s book “The Most Be
 autiful Thing.”
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SUMMARY:The Little Read: Kao Kalia Yang
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