Kim Ha has a friend named TiTi and she had to flee the country because of the war.

Kim doesn't know a lot about her father and doesn't know if he is still alive.

She has a big temper.

Kim Ha wants to be a man because she would have more rights and wishes she could leave the house finally

Kim Ha also misses her father even though she doesn't know her father that well.

She got tortured at school and her arm hair was pulled and she was poked in the chest.

She was gonna kick this pink-faced and white hair boy for torturing her.

Kim Ha is learning the English that they don't have in Vietnamese

Mother works as a secretary at a navel office in the morning but Mother is stuck making baby clothes at night.

She misses her husband.

She doesn't like talking about her husband missing.

Mother has to burn all the pictures of the father because they cant leave any tracks of the father so the soldiers don't get them.

Mother she doesn't like talking about their father much because if she does she would emotional and it will make the kids emotional as well.

Mother changed their religion to Christians to get in to Alabama.

Mother wants to sell the amethyst ring for clothes, food and other things for her kids, but she can't because I reminds them of their father.

Mother says "People share when they know they have escaped hunger".

Father left them for the war and never came back.

He has been missing for a long time

They got married at the age of 16.

Father watches over the family even when he is not there.

Uncle's son was the father's best friend.

Father brings back an amethyst ring from where he trained in the Navy.

The father wife and kids are traveling to where his brother is.

He loved his family very much, but he had to go on to the Navy and fight for his country.

Brother Khoi is the youngest brother out of all of them and still has more responsibilities.

Brother Khoi had to leave behind a row of glass jars of fish that he and his father had caught.

The first five bags and Brother Khoi told the family only to make three.

Brother Khoi says, "What if Father comes home and finds his family gone"?

Brother Khoi shakes Kim Ha before dawn.

He is very depressed because his chick didn't make it so he is very sad.

Brother Khoi's eyes are as wild as those of his broken chick.

Brother Khoi finds out that his chick is dead when everyone tells him that he stinks so he takes the chick out of his pocket and finds that chick's neck is broken and his neck was twisted and he starts crying because he was very close to that chick and seeing it dead breaks his heart.

Brother Vu is the second oldest of the brothers and does not have as many responsibilities.

He is very kind and caring.

He helps Kim Ha fight back in school.

Brother Vu says "Yes, we must go and get out of Vietnam".

Brother Vu had to leave behind a cowboy leather belt that Brother Vu sewed on Mother's machine and broke her needle.

That was when Brother Vu adored Johnny Cash more than Bruce Lee.

He got bullied at school today he got called a Ching Chong.

Brother Vu lures girls out by putting on Disney cartoons.

Brother Quang is the oldest brother and has a lot of responsibilities like technology and engineering.

He had to leave behind his report card in vietnam

He was top-ranked in kindergarten at the beginning of the year.

These were Brother Quang's words "How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country".

Brother Quang remembers father often said Tuyèt sùt, the vietnamese way to pronounce the French phrase tout de suite meaning the right way.

Brother Quang is experiencing that Americans get sponsor money.

Brother Quang Studies in engineering to impress himself.

Brother Quang becomes a translated for Guam.

Miss Scott is teaching Kim Ha the alphabet and the numbers that Americans say Vietnamese people don't say.

She is teaching Kim Ha fractions and counting to twenty.

Miss Scott was fake laughing and making fun of her last name, but she didn't know.

Miss Scott shows the class a photograph (I'm not gonna name it).

Kim Ha is like her favorite student in her class.

She is a retired teacher, She has no children, She also has a dog named Lassie, and a garden that takes up all of her backyard.

She started making Kim Ha's lunch.

She also contacts Kim Ha's teacher to see if she can eat in the classroom because Kim Ha hates the noisy room full of mouth chewing and laughing.

Miss Washington has some rules that the Ha family has to follow.

Miss Washington is like a grandma to Kim Ha and her family also with the cowboy.

Miss Washington was very honest about this and said it to Kim Ha she said she hates her family

Miss Washington does nice things for Kim Ha,y not her family.

Kim Ha thinks Miss Washington hates her, But she doesn't.

Pink Boy didn't get to know Kim Ha much and he is already bullying her for no reason.

The pink boy is also stalking Kim Ha pretty creepy.

Pink boy and his friends were screaming Boo-Daa.

Pink Boy and his friends were also egging people's houses.

Pink Boy gets made fun of instead of Kim Ha getting made fun of.

He had to agree to let The Ha family if they could stay at their place.

He has also been very nice to The Ha family even though he met them for a couple of days.

After The Ha family got Baptiste he has been giving them gifts every day.

Some kids keep throwing eggs, toilet paper, and bricks at their house

The cowboy was confused when he saw The Ha family react to cooked chicken.

The cowboy has to tell the Ha family that horses say neigh, neigh, neigh not hee, hee.

The cowboy had to find the Ha family a house to live in instead of living with them.

The Ha family wanted to know if the cowboy had horses because if his name is cowboy they have to have horses.

The cowboy's wife was not happy about The Ha family coming into the house, but she got used to it.

Also when they moved in in a couple of day the wife wanted them to pack their things and move out.

She is very nice to her husbands and her family but she is so mean to The Ha family.

The cowboy does everything for The Ha family and barely does anything for her.

She is not comfortable with The Ha family.

Pem and Steven are Kim Ha's friends and they always have Kim Ha's back.

Pem exchanges coats with Kim Ha and exchange them for hoods.

Pem and Steven always sit with Kim Ha at lunch.

Steven wears a beard like Abraham Lincoln.

Sometimes Kim Ha Gets Steven and Pams name wrong.