Marie G. Lee, Author . Beacon $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8388-8
Young adult novelist Lee (Finding My Voice
, etc.) explores a Korean-born girl's complicated journey to define her identity in her poignant adult debut. Adopted by a white Minnesota family who tried to quash any curiosity Sarah Thorson might...
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Marie G. Lee, Author Harper Teen $6.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-447169-5
An Asian American teenager finds himself an outsider when he moves from Los Angeles to an all-white Minnesota town and immerses himself in grueling high school football. Ages 12-up. (Feb.)
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Marie G. Lee, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-440-21896-8
PW singled out the ``unusually well balanced'' portrayal of the Korean-American heroine of this ``sensitive'' novel as she experiences senior year at her Minnesota high school. Ages 10-up. (Sept.)
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Marie G. Lee, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-380-97648-5
Lee (If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun) continues to offer insight into the Korean-American experience as she relates the ups and downs of seventh-grade immigrant Jin-Ha. Although some characters border on stereotype (Jin-Ha's heartless math teacher,...
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Marie G. Lee, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $13.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-395-62134-9
Ellen Sung's senior year at a small Minnesota high school begins inauspiciously: on the first day of school a blond jock calls her ``chink.'' The younger daughter of her town's only Korean-American family, Ellen is apparently unfamiliar with bigotry
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Marie G. Lee, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $13.95 (134p) ISBN 978-0-395-62941-3
Lee ( Finding My Voice ) mixes the issues of racial intolerance and ethnic pride with the otherwise typical seventh-grade angst of Alice Larsen, a Korean-born Minnesotan. Adopted as an infant, she feels totally American, and resists her father's...
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