2. She has a papaya tree that she cares for. 

3. Her and Khoi make a promise to both stay in Vietnam. 

4. While on the ship, she complained so much she got to go to the captain's bathroom.

5. When she finally goes to Alabama, she calls her sponsor her cowboy.

6. She asks her cowboy to ride his horse but he doesn't own a horse.

7. She starts going to school and gets bullied for how she looks.

8. She ends up getting treated nicely because her brother, Vu Lee, shows up to school and picks her up.

2. She's a secretary in the navy office. 

3. She decides to flee Vietnam and goes with Uncle to the port. 

4. Mother is originally from the North but moves south to get freedom.

5. Mother originally put down that she wanted to go to Paris, but changed it to America.

6. Mother put down that they were Christian, even though she is not.

7. When she goes to America, she gets a job sewing in a factory.

8. She lost her amethyst ring that father gave to her after praying for a sign that he was still here or gone.

2. He doesn't like to eat his eggs, and instead tries to make them hatch. 

3. Khoi has chicks that have hatched at their house.

4. When Khoi and his family were leaving Vietnam, he kept his chick with him.

5. When he was on the ship, the chick died but he kept it in his pocket until it smelled too bad.

6. He made Kim Ha promise to stay in Vietnam with him.

7. When he got to america, he got a bike to ride.

8. He wants to be a Vet when he is older.

2. He is 14 years old. 

3. He picks up Kim Ha when they were fleeing from Vietnam and puts her on his shoulder. 

4. When he was on the ship, his job was to teach self defense.

5. He likes to cook and wants to be a chef.

6. Vu decided to make everyone call him Vu Lee instead of Vu.

7. He teaches Kim Ha defence when she starts going to school because she begged him a lot to teach her.

8. After he picks up Kim Ha the day she was supposed to get beat up, he always picks her up.

2. He is the oldest child. 

3. Quang leaves behind his report cards when they leave Vietnam. 

4. He is the only person in his family that knows English.

5. While on the ship, his job was to teach english.

6. Quang has been teaching Kim Ha english ever since they started going to america and continues to teach her english.

7. Quang has been translating everything that has been said to the family collectively.

8. Quang works somewhere where he fixes cars.

2. He went missing while he was on a Navy mission. 

3. Father gave mother a amethyst ring from America.

4. Father has been missing for 10 years.

5. Father left his family in North Vietnam to raise his family.

2. Miss Washington agreed to teach Kim Ha some more english.

3. She has a son who went to Vietnam and loved it.

4. She got Kim Ha dried papaya for Christmas.

5. She told Kim Ha to say something back to Pink boy and his friends after hearing about him bullying her.

2. He always wears his cowboy hat.

3. He paid for three months of rent for a house for Kim Ha's family.

4. When he brought Kim Ha's family home, he got them KFC one day.

5. He brought Kim Ha's family to a church that he goes to to get them baptized.

2. When Kim Ha's family first got here, she was looking at them very angrily.

3. Whenever she is around Kim Ha's family she seems very mad and angry.

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2. She makes Kim Ha feel stupid by giving her simple things when she knows more than what she gives her.

3. She made the class clap for Kim Ha when she counted to 20 and sang the alphabet.

4. Miss Scoot teaches the class about where Kim Ha is from by showing the class about the war.

5. Miss Scott teaches the class about what Vietnam looks like for a while.

2. Pink boy always pesters and bullies Kim Ha when he can.

3. He followed Kim Ha on her way home a few times.

4. He got mad at Kim Ha when she called him do do face.

5. He got an older cousin who's in the sixth grade to agree to beat up Kim Ha.

2. Steven and Pam become friends with Ha after they first meet.

3. They both get her something for Christmas.

4. Steven and Pam always hang out with Kim Ha during class.

5. Steven and Pam help Kim Ha run away from Pink Boy's older cousin.