how many pages are in the book inside out and back again
263
title: Inside Out & Back Again text: Inside Out & Back Again Inside Out & Back Again is a verse novel by Thanhha Lai. The book was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and one of the two Newbery Honors. The novel was based on her first year in the United States, as a ten-year-old girl who spoke no English in 1975. Inside Out and Back Again is a story about a young girl named Kim Hà and her family, consisting of her Mother and three brothers, being forced to move to the United States because the Vietnam War had reached their home, title: Thanhha Lai text: Thanhha Lai Thanhha Lai (born 1965) is a Vietnam-born American writer of children's literature. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a Newbery Honor for her debut novel, "Inside Out & Back Again", published by HarperCollins. Lai fled Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She then moved to Alabama and graduated from University of Texas, Austin with a degree in journalism and from 1988 worked about two years for the Orange County, California newspaper "The Register", covering Little Saigon, the local Vietnamese community. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University and settled title: Inside Out & Back Again text: United States of America because Hà's journey was special—the fictional character was based on Lai’s own experience at the end of the Vietnam War. In order to avoid embellishing on her memory and risking the ire from the family who was there with her, Lai decided to tell the story of Hà instead. She attempted prose from the first person and the short, detached style of Hemingway. In the end, Lai used free verse because “these phrases reflected what Vietnamese sounded like.” Inside Out & Back Again Inside Out & Back Again is a verse novel by Thanhha Lai. The title: Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd text: and the Syd Barrett–led psychedelic era of the late 1960s through their success in the 1970s to the present day, via the acrimonious splits of the 1980s. As of 2005, a new paperback version was available, now including an updated section on the band's reunion at Live 8. A second paperback edition was released, mentioning the death of Barrett, in 2006. A third paperback edition was released in 2011, mentioning the death of keyboardist Rick Wright. The book was updated and reissued again in 2017, to accompany the opening of the exhibition "" at the Victoria and Albert Museum in title: Inside Out & Back Again text: book, it mentions that Hà's father, a soldier in the Vietnam war, was captured by the North Vietnamese Army when she was only a year old. In the end, Hà's family figures out that unfortunately, her father had died while in North Vietnamese hands. Hà then gets used to living in the U.S and her family celebrates the new year. She prays for good things to happen to her and her family. The main resolution of the book is family importance. Thanhha Lai had been struggling for fifteen years in order to accurately describe Hà's journey from Vietnam to the