Thanhha Lai

Thanhha Lai is a Vietnamese-American writer of children's literature. Her debut novel, Inside Out & Back Again, earned a Newbery Honor and won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Butterfly Yellow follows a Vietnamese refugee who was separated from her little brother during the fall of Saigon and, six years later in Texas, enlists a rodeo-dreaming local boy to help find him.