Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War
By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
WHEN the Americans pull out of Saigon in April 1975, many babies are rescued from the orphanage where eight-year-old Tuyet has lived for years. The orphanage is to be abandoned and the children left alone.
But Tuyet had polio and walks with a limp; she doesn’t expect to be chosen to go to a foreign country.
Ontario-based Skrypuch, who has written a number of award-winning books for young people, tells the true story of how this little girl is transported to Toronto and finds a loving home with a Canadian family. She makes us feel Tuyet’s fears, confusion and loneliness as she adjusts to her new home. Her book uses actual photographs of Tuyet and her family.