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Gr 6-8 In 1977, 12-year-old Matt Pin lives a fractured life. He is the son of a Vietnamese woman and an American soldier and was airlifted to safety from the war zone. Adopted by a caring American couple, he has vivid and horrific memories of the war and worries about the fates of his mother and badly injured little brother. Matt's adoptive family adores him, and he is the star...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

When Saigon fell, a couple of years before the start of this affecting verse novel, war refugee Matt was airlifted out of Vietnam; now he has been adopted by an American couple. The seventh-grader has two passions—piano and baseball—and one secret: he still feels responsible for the horrific injuries his little brother sustained in Vietnam on the day Matt didn't watch him closely enough. Matt is a child of war, and those painful memories ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Vietnamese American seventh grader Matt has two passions--piano and baseball--and one secret: he feels responsible for horrific i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

All the Broken Pieces is messy, in the way that life is messy. First-time novelist Ann Burg recognizes that life is a series of fragments—rarely a cohesive whole. Matt’s story exemplifies this idea, as do the short, varied poems that make up the narrative. Matt struggles to define himself, both because he is an adolescent and because of his unique racial and cultural background. Though Matt was born in Vietnam and looks Vietnamese, his biological father is American, his adoptive parents are American, and he ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More