![]() Sun-hee, now called Keoko, and Tae-yul, newly named Nobuo, tell the story in alternating narrative voices. To add to their unhappiness, everyone, adults and children alike, must give up their Korean names and take new Japanese ones. Sun-hee and her older brother, Tae-yul, still go to school every day, but lessons now consist of lectures and recitations designed to glorify Japan. ![]() ![]() “Living in Korea in the 1940s was difficult because the Japanese, who occupied the country, seemed determined to obliterate Korean culture and to impose their own on its residents. ![]() 2003 Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the YearĢ002 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens (DC)Ĭharlie May Simon Children’s Book Award Nominee (AR)Ģ003-2004 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Nominee (VT)Ģ005 Garden State (NJ) Teen Book Award NomineeĢ004 Maine Student Book Award Master ListĢ002 Michigan Library Association’s Mitten Award WinnerĢ002 New York Public Library, 100 Titles for Reading and SharingĢ003 Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social StudiesĢ002 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the YearĢ005 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Master List (IL)Ģ002 School Library Journal, Best Books of the YearĢ006 Sunshine State Young Readers’ Master List (FL) ![]()
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