Author : Sook Nyul Choi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 1991-09-13
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547348746
This autobiographical story tells of ten-year-old Sookan and her family's suffering and humiliation in Korea, first under Japanese rule and after the Russians invade, and of a harrowing escape to South Korea.
Author : Sook Nyul Choi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618809172
Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul.
Author : Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 006234711X
In the final days of World War II, Koreans were determined to take back control of their country from the Japanese and end the suffering caused by the Japanese occupation. As an eleven-year-old girl living with her Japanese family in northern Korea, Yoko is suddenly fleeing for her life with her mother and older sister, Ko, trying to escape to Japan, a country Yoko hardly knows. Their journey is terrifying—and remarkable. It's a true story of courage and survival that highlights the plight of individual people in wartime. In the midst of suffering, acts of kindness, as exemplified by a family of Koreans who risk their own lives to help Yoko's brother, are inspiring reminders of the strength and resilience of the human spirit.
Author : Linda Sue Park
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 2013-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0702251267
A heartwarming tale of courage, resilience and hope from master storyteller and winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal, Linda Sue Park. When her name was Keoko, Japan owned Korea, and Japanese soldiers ordered people around, telling them what they could do or say, even what sort of flowers they could grow. When her name was Keoko, World War II came to Korea, and her friends and relatives had to work and fight for Japan. When her name was Keoko, she never forgot her name was actually Kim Sun-hee. And no matter what she was called, she was Korean. Not Japanese. Inspired by true-life events, this amazing story reveals what happens when your culture, country and identity are threatened.
Author : Lauren St. John
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1440638640
When Martine’s home in England burns down, killing her parents, she must go to South Africa to live on a wildlife game preserve, called Sawubona, with the grandmother she didn’t know she had. Almost as soon as she arrives, Martine hears stories about a white giraffe living in the preserve. But her grandmother and others working at Sawubona insist that the giraffe is just a myth. Martine is not so sure, until one stormy night when she looks out her window and locks eyes with Jemmy, a young silvery-white giraffe. Why is everyone keeping Jemmy’s existence a secret? Does it have anything to do with the rash of poaching going on at Sawubona? Martine needs all of the courage and smarts she has, not to mention a little African magic, to find out. First-time children’s author Lauren St. John brings us deep into the African world, where myths become reality and a young girl with a healing gift has the power to save her home and her one true friend.
Author : Sook Nyul Choi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395616260
A Korean American girl's third grade class helps her newly arrived grandmother feel more comfortable with her new life in the United States.
Author : Sook Nyul Choi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1994-09-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0547562403
The conclusion to the remarkable story of the young Korean heroine of Year of Impossible Goodbyes and Echoes of the White Giraffe. Sookan travels to the United States to begin her freshman year of college where she faces the difficulties of leaving her family and beginning a new life in a foreign land.
Author : Quang Nhuong Huynh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 1999-01-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0064462110
As a young boy growing up in the hills of central Vietnam, Nhuong’s companion was Tank, the family water buffalo. When bullies harassed Nhuong, Tank sent them packing. When a wild tiger threatened the entire village, Tank defeated it. He led the herd and adopted a lonely puppy. Tank was Nhuong’s best friend. Nhuong gives readers a glimpse of himself when he was their age, and tells a thrilling story of how he and Tank together faced the dangers of life in the Vietnamese jungle which was their home.
Author : Gloria Whelan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 006197580X
One girl too many . . . When a girl is born to Chu Ju's family, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. After all, the law states that a family may have only two children, and tradition dictates that every family should have a boy. To make room for one, this girl will have to go. Fourteen-year-old Chu Ju knows she cannot allow this to happen to her sister. Understanding that one girl must leave, she sets out in the middle of the night, vowing not to return. With luminescent detail, National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan transports readers to China, where law conspires with tradition, tearing a young woman from her family, sending her on a remarkable journey to find a home of her own.
Author : Ann Rinaldi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0547351070
The daughter of Paul Revere tells of her father’s secret—and her own: “A lively, exciting picture of Boston going to war…excellent.”—VOYA Thirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a Patriot hero, a champion of the Colonies against the British. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he will tell no one—not his new wife, not his best friend, not even his trusted daughter. It seems everyone in her family has secrets. Sarah’s even got one of her own—and it's tearing her apart…. This is a “beautifully crafted” novel of a young girl growing up—and a country’s battle for independence (School Library Journal). “As usual, Rinaldi has done her homework; the book is solidly researched and extremely well written. Readers will not soon forget these characters…Vivid in the best sense of the word.”—Kirkus Reviews A New York Public Library “Book for the Teen Age” Includes a reader's guide
