Half Spoon of Rice
Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide by Icy Smith, illustrated by Sopaul Nhem
Without warning, the boy, Nat, and this parents are herded out of their Phnom Penh city home and forced to march to the countryside with millions of others, trying to avoid the gunfire and violence that befalls far too many. Along the way, the family befriends a young girl Malis who has lost her own family in the nightmarish chaos.
Out in the fields, men, women, children, are each separated from one another and forced to work in brutal conditions to feed the vicious army. No matter how
much food they grow, the people are given just half a spoon of rice a day. Nat and Malis manage to survive years of starvation and terror, they finally find Nat’s parents . Then they head to California to live out there lives
Without warning, the boy, Nat, and this parents are herded out of their Phnom Penh city home and forced to march to the countryside with millions of others, trying to avoid the gunfire and violence that befalls far too many. Along the way, the family befriends a young girl Malis who has lost her own family in the nightmarish chaos.
Out in the fields, men, women, children, are each separated from one another and forced to work in brutal conditions to feed the vicious army. No matter how
much food they grow, the people are given just half a spoon of rice a day. Nat and Malis manage to survive years of starvation and terror, they finally find Nat’s parents . Then they head to California to live out there lives