书名：Listen, Slowly十二岁的旅程
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数800L
读者对象：8-12岁
作者：Thanhha Lai赖清河
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2016
语种：英文
ISBN：9780062229199
商品尺寸：13 x 1.5 x 19.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：288
一段真正认识自己，走向独立与成长的奇妙旅程

Listen, Slowly《十二岁的旅程》是美籍越南裔著名女作家赖清河又一部直指心灵的成长大作。深刻的背景，深沉的情感，深厚的文学底蕴和深远的思索在轻松幽默，不失温情的笔触里表现得淋漓尽致，令人爱不释手。小说讲述从小生长在美国的少女阿梅被迫放弃暑假，随奶奶飞越大半个地球，返回从未谋面的故乡去寻访一个重大秘密的故事。坚定、责任、独立、机智……在阿梅的旅程中，孩子们感受着成长的力量。

推荐理由：
1.美国《纽约时报》杰出童书奖，纽伯瑞大奖、美国国家图书奖畅销童书《十岁那年》姊妹篇；

2.文学性与故事性并重，属于国际一流水准的儿童文学作品；

3.美国出版人周刊、书单杂志、美国著名儿童文学作家，国家图书奖金奖得主强烈推荐。

名人推荐
“一翻开这本书，我立刻感受到了它的风趣、深刻和那种直击人心的感动。我非常、非常、非常热爱它！”——美国儿童文学作家、国家图书奖金奖得主杰奎琳·伍德森

媒体推荐
“作者奇迹般地创造了一个令人难忘的故事背景，以及众多性格丰富、饱满的角色，并以优雅精妙的笔触叙写了一个时而令人捧腹，时而激动人心的故事。”——美国《书单》杂志星级评论
“与荣获纽伯瑞大奖和美国国家图书奖的经典作品《十岁那年》一样，作者在本书中再次用富有诗意和散文般优美的语言带来了一个活泼机智、古灵精怪的小女孩形象和一段心灵成长之旅。”——美国《出版人周刊》星级评论

This remarkable and bestselling novel from Thanhha Lai, author of the National Book Award-winning and Newbery Honor Book Inside Out & Back Again, follows a young girl as she learns the true meaning of family.
Listen, Slowly is a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year!
A California girl born and raised, Mai can’t wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War.
Mai’s parents think this trip will be a great opportunity for their out-of-touch daughter to learn more about her culture. But to Mai, those are their roots, not her own. Vietnam is hot, smelly, and the last place she wants to be. Besides barely speaking the language, she doesn’t know the geography, the local customs, or even her distant relatives. To survive her trip, Mai must find a balance between her two completely different worlds.
Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia and Linda Sue Park, Listen, Slowly is an irresistibly charming and emotionally poignant tale about a girl who discovers that home and culture, family and friends, can all mean different things.
This paperback edition includes a special letter from the author and a Vietnamese glossary and pronunciation guide.

Review:
“Lai inserts Ba’s lyrical voice selectively into Mai’s story. These heart-stopping passages further shift Mai’s position from outsider to insider, to, finally, truly bicultural, just as ‘Listen, Slowly’ invites readers to see Vietnam from the inside out—and back again.” —New York Times Book Review

“This valentine of a novel may jumpstart questions in young readers about the people and places of their families’ past.”—WashingtonPost

“Thanhha Lai is so amazing.” —Bustle.com

“Open this book, read it slowly to savor the delicious language. This is a book that asks the reader to be careful, to pay attention, to sigh at the end.”  — Kathi Appelt, bestselling author of Newbery Honor Book TheUnderneath

“Lai’s spare language captures the sensory disorientation of changing cultures as well as a refugee’s complex emotions and kaleidoscopic loyalties.”  — The Horn Book

“In this free-verse narrative, Lai is sparing in her details, painting big pictures with few words and evoking abundant visuals.”  — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“This book is at once funny, thoughtful, and stunningly engaging. I loved, loved, loved it! Can’t wait for my own daughter—and every reader who is lucky enough to get their hands on it—to step inside Mai’s two, very different, worlds.”  — Jacqueline Woodson, author of the National Book Award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming

“Newbery Honor author Lai delivers a funny, realistic tale of family and friendship and culture clashes. A touching tale of preteen angst and translation troubles.”  — KirkusReviews

“Lai convincingly shows Mai’s slow transformation from spoiled child to someone who can look beyond herself with compassion. Her strong-willed personality makes her an entertaining narrator; readers will happily travel anywhere with Mai.” — The Horn Book

“Through prose so evocative we can feel the heat caressing Mai’s skin as she lands, Lai transports the reader from suburban California to modern-day Vietnam.”  — Los AngelesTimes

十二岁的女孩米娅伶牙俐齿，古灵精怪，在美国出生、长大的她却有着另一个奇妙的身份——阿梅，这个名字将她与从未谋面的故乡紧紧联系在一起。这个暑假，她本打算在美丽的海滩上和朋友一起欢聚，却不得不陪奶奶飞越几千公里，回到爸妈口中的故乡去寻找一个重要的秘密。是什么让奶奶执着地惦念了几十年？面对故乡半生不熟的语言、迥异的文化习惯和行事诡秘的大人，阿梅焦头烂额，哭笑不得，然而她只能依靠自己。终于，调查有了进展，一切线索渐渐指向后来的玄机——一封带不走的信。等待阿梅的是一段令人震惊的往事……

Thanhhà Laiwas born in Vièt Nam and now lives with her family in New York.Like the father in Listen, Slowly, Thanhhà has been buying bicycles for poor children in Vièt Nam since 2005.