Sook Nyul Choi, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-395-57419-5
In 1945, 10-year-old Sookan's homeland of North Korea is occupied by the Japanese. Left behind while her resistance-fighter father hides in Manchuria and her older brothers toil in Japanese labor camps, Sookan and her remaining family members run a...
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Sook Nyul Choi, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (176p) ISBN 978-0-395-67437-6
Sookan, the young Korean heroine of Year of Impossible Goodbyes and Echoes of the White Giraffe, has arrived in the United States to attend a women's college at the start of Choi's latest novel, set in 1954-1955. Having survived the war in her...
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Sook Nyul Choi, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-395-64721-9
Sookan, the heroine who fled war-torn Seoul with her mother and younger brother in Choi's Year of Impossible Goodbyes , returns in this haunting sequel to tell of life as a refugee in South Korea. Now 15, Sookan tries to establish a sense of...
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Sook Nyul Choi, Author, Karen Dugan, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-61626-0
In her first picture book, Choi ( The Year of Impossible Goodbyes ) tackles the sensitive topic of an immigrant's adjustment to life in the United States. Yunmi's grandmother Halmoni has just moved to New York City from Korea and she's having a...
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Sook Nyul Choi, Author, Cornelius Van Wright, Illustrator, Ying-Hwa Hu, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-385-32208-9
This First Choice Chapter Book by the author of The Year of Impossible Goodbyes reprises a topic frequently visited in picture books: an older child's resentment of the attention a younger sibling receives. Kiju has undeniably usurped Sunhi's focal...
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