What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Absolutely Invincible
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SOLVED. 80's/90's MG-YA book about refugee with memory loss [s]
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What country/place was the boy brought to after he was rescued?Anything about the cover?
Time period story takes place?
Part of a series?
Is this an American book, Canadian, British, etc?
I think he was brought to the US or Canada. I don't remember the cover, unfortunately :/
Time period - if I'm right about the boy being from Vietnam then it would have been in the late 70's, maybe early 80's?
Not part of a series. The book might be Canadian, since I'm Canadian.
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Oh, I thought I had replied! I don't think so, it doesn't seem to quite match... but I'll have to see if I can find a copy to be sure.
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No, I still haven’t found it sadly. Hopefully some day I will track it down
Try "bumping" your thread (just post a comment, such as "bump") every month or two, so it moves up to page 1 and fresh eyes get a look at it. Your post won't get much traffic if it's languishing on page 400.
Kerri (Book Hoarder) wrote: "I seem to remember a comparison of his name to 'Hey-soos' or 'Haysus', etc?"Are you saying the boy's name was Jesus? Sounds like he might have been from a Latin American country then, not Vietnam. Google says some of those countries do have a lot of landmines.
Rainbowheart wrote: "Kerri (Book Hoarder) wrote: "I seem to remember a comparison of his name to 'Hey-soos' or 'Haysus', etc?"Are you saying the boy's name was Jesus? Sounds like he might have been from a Latin Ameri..."
Hmm, that's a good point - I'd assumed that it had to be Vietnam because of the timing, but perhaps not.
Yay! I updated the post, but I managed to finally find this book tonight - Absolutely Invincible! Something must have triggered part of my brain in this thread tonight because I finally was able to recall the (original) title and go from there :) Now to decide whether I want to reread it :)
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Okay, so this is as much as I remember!
The book is about a boy - probably a teenager - who is a refugee from a war-torn country. I think it is Vietnam but I'm not sure. He has memory loss and can't quite remember what happened to him before he left/was rescued from his home country, which is quite traumatic - the book involves flashbacks.
At school I believe he's a member of a class or group of students with various disabilities - one of them is a blind girl, if I'm remembering right. At some point in the book there's a confrontation where the girl is being groped by some other students/bullies and the main character rescues her. Oh, and I think that he's learning karate or some sort of martial arts, this helps with his flash-backs, etc?
The boy has been adopted or taken in by another family, and I seem to remember a comparison of his name to 'Hey-soos' or 'Haysus', etc? At the end of the book he has a flashback and remembers that his younger sister was killed when she stepped on a landmine, and this kind of resolves the gap in his memory and the flashbacks he's been having.
I've tried googling but no luck, hopefully someone will recognize this! I read it in paperback form from what I remember.