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Title: Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi ISBN: 0-440-40759-1 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (30 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An exciting and moving book...great for all.
Comment: I first read this book in the middle of fifth grade (I am going into sixth right now). From the very beginning, I knew I'd love it. It was about a Korean girl living toward the end of World War 2. Then when the war finally ends and the Koreans are free from the Japanese, Korea is divided by the 38th parallel. Sookan and her family are living in Russian Communist controlled North Korea and they have to get to American controlled South Korea. Will they make it? This book is very exciting yet very moving also. I think it is good for both young and old. I have re-read the book twice, and all times I thouroughly enjoyed it and each time I got more out of it. This book is great.
-Helge Schultz
Rating: 5
Summary: Great history lesson
Comment: Have you ever thought about freedom? What you ever thought about when your next meal would come? Have you ever thought about living under oppression? Living in today's world, there are many that live under fear and oppression. This is exactly what a ten-year old Korean girl Sookan is going through. She lived during the 1940's under Japanese military rule. What we take for granted today were rare commodities at the time.
I would highly recommend this book for the study of oppression and freedom in the time of war. This story although fiction really did happen in our history and is interesting to read. This story happened during World War II. However, because of what happened in the Western world, all the bad effects in Asia are almost ignored. We tend to study only our history, but there was more damage done to the rest of the world other than the Western and European countries.
One of the main universal concerns in this story is freedom. Although living in the U.S, everyone wants freedom. But what is truly freedom. Not wanting to clean our bedroom, is that freedom? Is wishing to speak your mind out loud a freedom? One of the most powerful quotes that rivet the heart is on page 164 when Sookan and her brother are trying to escape " It wasn't worth hiding anymore. It was now or never. We could see the fence..." Life and death was not a question when freedom was at hand. Many people go to great distance for freedom. This book is the best place to find it.
This book can tie into history and Language arts as the book touches all bases of humanity and survival. It is appropriate for sixth grade and up.
Rating: 5
Summary: great story, yet sad and touching.
Comment: This book has a great plot and is so descriptive that you feel like you are right there with her. This story is quite sad though, I must admitt. If you don't like sad stories, don't read it. Otherwise, GO FOR IT!
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Title: Echoes of the White Giraffe by Sook-Nyul Choi ISBN: 0395647215 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 26 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park ISBN: 0618133356 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 18 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashawa Watkins ISBN: 0688131158 Publisher: HarperTempest Pub. Date: 24 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor ISBN: 014034893X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson ISBN: 0064402010 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 17 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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