Books like The caged birds of Phnom Penh by Frederick Lipp

A gripping memoir of a child’s survival during the Khmer Rouge genocide, detailing Loung Ung’s journey from privilege in Phnom Penh to forced labor camps and ultimate resilience.

A young Cambodian girl, Raami, struggles to survive the Khmer Rouge era, clinging to her father's stories while facing death, starvation, and forced labor amid Phnom Penh's chaos.

Kobato, Vol. 5 brings the manga’s blend of romance, fantasy, and wonder to life with the Clamp creators’ signature art and storytelling.

Three angels help three couples achieve their Christmas wishes through divine intervention.

In this rhyming children’s mystery, a town’s first day of October holds a secret—every wish made on the First of Octember is granted, setting the stage for playful wonder and detective intrigue.

The Khmer Rouge revolution turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields, as the Pol Pot regime murdered or starved to death a million and a half of Cambodia's eight million inhabitants. This book -- the first comprehensive study of the Pol Pot regime -- describes the violent origins, social context, and course of the revolution, providing a new answer to the question of why a group of Cambodian intellectuals imposed genocide on their own country. Ben Kiernan draws on more than five hundred interviews with Cambodian refugees, survivors, and defectors, as well as on a rich collection of previously unexplored archival material from the Pol Pot regime (including Pol Pot's secret speeches). - Back cover.

A Season of Angels is a heartwarming Christmas story featuring three guardian angels who return to Earth to answer the prayers of three lovelorn souls.

"When Loung Ung came to America in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee, she had already survived years of hunger, violence, and loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a story she told in her bestseller, First They Killed My Father. Now, in Lucky Child, Ung writes of assimilation and, in alternating chapters, gives voice to a genocide survivor she left behind in rural Cambodia, her older sister Chou." "Loung was the lucky child, the sibling Eldest Brother chose to take with him to America. The youngest and the scrappiest, she was the one he believed had the best chance of making it. Just two years apart, Chou and Loung had bonded deeply over the deaths of their parents and sisters. As they stood holding hands in their dusty village while the extended family gathered to say good-bye, they never imagined that fifteen years would pass before they would be reunited again." "Ung describes what it is like to survive in a new culture while surmounting dogged memories of genocide and the deep scars of war. Not only must she learn about Disney characters and Christmas trees to fit in with her classmates, she must also come to understand life in a nation of peace: that the Fourth of July fireworks are not bombs and that she doesn't have to hide food in her bed every night to make sure she has enough to eat." "An accomplished activist and writer, Ung has now returned to Cambodia many times, and in this recreation of Chou's life, she writes the story that so easily could have been hers. Both redemptive and searing, Lucky Child highlights the harsh realities of chance and circumstance and celebrates the indomitability of the human spirit."--BOOK JACKET.

A visit to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe shows us that wishes don't make things happen, people make things happen.