Korea
Novels
The Year of Impossible Goodbyes
by Sook Nyul Choi

A young Korean girl survives the oppresion of
Japanese and Russian occupation forces in
North Korea and manages to escape to freedom
in South Korea during the 1940s.
Echoes of the White Giraffe
by Sook Nyul Choi

In this sequel to The Year of Impossible
Goodbyes, 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.
A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval
Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village,
and longs to learn how to throw the delicate
celadon ceramics himself in this Newbery Award
winning book.