My Story
I was born on October 31, 1972 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I was very young when my country was in trouble in 1975. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge (the Communist leaders) came into town. They...
Stories
Original fiction by young writers ages 8-13
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I was born on October 31, 1972 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I was very young when my country was in trouble in 1975.
In 1975, the Khmer Rouge (the Communist leaders) came into town. They sent us and the other people out of town to other places to work on the rice fields. My family had to walk fifteen days to the new place. We took only things with us like clothes and so on.
By Ted Nelson, 11, Weybridge School, Weybridge, Vermont
The tent flew up in a flurry of movement. I hurled my sleeping bag and cooler to the ground and watched the rain making patterns on the pool's surface.
My mind kept flitting forward to the race, and I kept reminding myself where I was.
"O.K. Ted," I would say, "you're here, at the race, the valley championships.
By Viet Doan Nguyen, 11, East Point, Georgia
I have been through an experience that I will never forget. When I was about six years old, my family and I escaped looking for freedom in America, because the Viet Cong took over my country. The country is Viet Nam.
The first time we escaped we didn't make it.
By Huong Nguyen, 11, Hosford Middle School, Portland, Oregon
Reprinted with permission from Light of the Island, © 1982
I live in Vietnam. I go to school in Vietnam. I have three pigs and one dog, but the dog is dead. My mother she was sad. My mother my father my sister is go to work. Me and my younger sister we stay home. Everybody is go to work. We has a restaurant in Vietnam.