Linda Sue Park, Author . Clarion $16 (208p) ISBN 978-0-618-13335-2
A brother and sister alternate as narrators in Newbery Medalist Park's (A Single Shard) well-constructed novel, which takes place from 1940–1945 in Japanese-occupied Korea. The Japanese government forbids the Korean language to be spoken...
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Linda Sue Park, Author . Dell/Yearling $4.99 (, $4.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-440-41813-9
Tradition and family loyalty come into question in this book by the recently named Newbery Medalist, set in Seoul, Korea, in 1473. Two brothers anticipate the annual New Year's Kite competition, wondering how to balance convention and love for...
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Linda Sue Park, Author . Dell/Yearling $5.99 (152p) ISBN 978-0-440-41851-1
In a starred review of this Newbery Medal winner, PW
wrote, "The author molds a moving tribute to perseverance and creativity in this finely etched novel set in mid- to late–12th-century Korea. Readers will not soon forget these...
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Linda Sue Park, Author . Dell/Yearling $5.50 (199p) ISBN 978-0-440-41944-0
"A brother and sister alternate as narrators in this well-constructed novel, which takes place from 1940–1945 in Japanese-occupied Korea," wrote PW
in a starred review. "Through the use of the shifting narrators, Park subtly...
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Linda Sue Park, Author . Clarion $15 (225p) ISBN 978-0-618-47786-9
In this contemporary novel, Park (A Single Shard
) creates a Korean-American seventh-grader so lifelike she jumps off the page. Literally. Between chapters, protagonist Julia Song makes suggestions to the author about plot details and voices her...
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Linda Sue Park, Author , illus. by Ho Baek Lee. Clarion $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-26511-4
The title refers to a dish of rice, egg strips, vegetables and meat that's a staple of Korean family life—and it's a lot of fun to eat, too, because diners get to mix the parts together themselves right at the table. (The words in...
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Park (Seesaw Girl) molds a moving tribute to perseverance and creativity in this finely etched novel set in mid- to late 12th-century Korea. In Ch'ul'po, a potter's village, Crane-man (so called because of one shriveled leg) raises 10-yea
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Linda Sue Park, Author . Clarion $16 (202p) ISBN 978-0-618-92799-9
Although the jacket image shows a girl at a baseball stadium, Newbery Medalist Park's (A Single Shard
) Korean War–era novel is best approached not as a sports story but as a powerful attempt to grapple with loss. Margaret Olivia Fontini,
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Linda Sue Park, Clarion, $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-547-25127-1
Newbery Medalist Park's (The Single Shard) spare, hard-hitting novel delivers a memorable portrait of two children in Sudan—one an 11-year-old Lost Boy, Salva, who fled in 1985 and later immigrated to the United States, and 11-year-old Nya, who...
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Linda Sue Park, Author Clarion Books $16 (167p) ISBN 978-0-618-59631-7
Park's (""A Single Shard"") novel, set in 1999, is part history lesson, part martial arts adventure; it begins with a rather shaky premise but quickly pulls in readers. Twelve-year-old Kevin, a Korean-American math whiz who dislikes social studies ("
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Linda Sue Park, Author, Julie Downing, Illustrator , illus. by Julie Downing. Clarion $16 (37p) ISBN 978-0-618-13337-6
Newbery Medalist Park (A Single Shard
) brings an accomplished novelist's sensibility to this suspenseful picture book set in 19th-century Korea, fully developing her characters despite the abbreviated format. Every night, Sang-hee's father...
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Linda Sue Park, illus. by Jim Madsen. Harper, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-232738-3
Through his preternatural apothecarial talents, 12-year-old Raffa Santana restores a bat’s injured wings and apparently gives the creature the ability to speak. Raffa soon discovers that the potent vine he used has other dangerous powers, spurring a
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Linda Sue Park, illus. by Jennifer Black Reinhardt. Clarion, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-39101-7
Perfectly pitched to its audience, this clever introduction to animal-themed homographs also works as a vocabulary lesson and a catchy read-aloud. Park (Xander’s Panda Party) and Reinhardt (The Inventor’s Secret) make an ideal team as they introduce
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Linda Sue Park, illus. by Matt Phelan. Clarion, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-547-55865-3
Phelan (Around the World) takes Park’s jaunty story about a panda with a complicated social life and develops it still further. In ink-and-watercolor vignettes, he animates the many zoo creatures Xander considers inviting to his party, capturing...
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Linda Sue Park, Author, David Almond, Author, Eoin Colfer, Author et al. Scholastic/Levine $16.99 (217p) ISBN 978-0-439-41138-7
Ten distinguished authors each write a chapter of this intriguing novel of mystery and family, which examines the lives touched by a photojournalist George Keane, aka Gee. The first chapter, by Linda Sue Park, begins with Gee’s death and how...
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Linda Sue Park, Author, Jean Tseng, Illustrator, Mou-Sien Tseng, Illustrator Clarion Books $14 (96p) ISBN 978-0-395-91514-1
This first novel set in 17th-century Korea centers on 12-year-old Jade Blossom, daughter of one of the king's advisers. With all the temerity of a 1990s girl, Jade plays tricks on her brother (with the help of her cousin Willow), and her yearning to
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Linda Sue Park, illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Clarion, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-547-20195-5
Somewhere in Ibatoulline’s ancient, almost-shimmering Arab desert landscape, a boy at his father’s side learns the family business of gathering valuable sap, which seeps like tears from certain trees. Neither father nor son realize the greatness of...
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Linda Sue Park, Author, Graeme Malcolm, Read by , read by Graeme Malcolm. Listening Library $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-0701-7
British actor Malcolm initially seems an odd choice of narrator for Park's novel set in 12th-century Korea, but he proves to be a compelling performer on this adaptation of the book that was recently named winner of this year's Newbery Medal.
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Linda Sue Park, Author, Istvan Banyai, Illustrator , illus. by Istvan Banyai. Clarion $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-618-23483-7
Similar to the Japanese haiku, the Korean sijo packs image, metaphor and surprise into three long (or six short) lines with a fixed number of syllables: “Lightning jerks the sky awake to take her photograph, flash!/ Which draws grumbling...
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Linda Sue Park, Author, Feodor Chin, Read by , read by Feodor Chin. Listening Library $27 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3866-7
What would you do if a ruler and expert archer from ancient Korea literally crash-landed in your bedroom, bow-and-arrows in hand? That's the shocking—and ultimately illuminating as well as humorous—situation facing 12-year-old Kevin...
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Linda Sue Park. Clarion, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-328-78150-5
Newbery Medalist Park explores prejudice on the American frontier in this sensitively told story about a multiracial girl and her white father in Dakota Territory. Hanna, 14, and her father have been traveling for nearly three years, since her half-C
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Linda Sue Park. Allida, $18.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-0633-4629-1
Living in western New York, tween Gracie is miles away from the ocean, yet she yearns to snorkel among coral reefs, especially in the Maldives. In pursuit of her dream, Gracie gathers information about a closer locale—Roatán, an island in Honduras—an
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Linda Sue Park, illus. by Jennifer Black Reinhardt. Clarion, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-54669-1
Gondra is a little dragon whose father is from the East, where dragons are blue and green, breathe mist, and fly with magic. Her mother comes from the West, where dragons have bronze scales, breathe fire, and fly with wings. The parents engage in...
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Linda Sue Park, illus. by Lenny Wen. Allida, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-3586-6392-8
Using rhythmic, rhyming couplets—“Brown eyes/ green eyes/ hazel or blue// You can see me/ and/ I can see you!”—this upbeat narrative by Park (My Book and Me) follows an East Asian–cued protagonist from awakening to bedtime. As language expounds on...
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Linda Sue Park, illus. by Chris Raschka. Red Comet, $18.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-63655-094-7
Newbery Medalist Park and two-time Caldecott Medalist Raschka celebrate the ways children shower their books with love—and what they get in return—in a picture book that catalogs reading’s pleasures. In each spread, a child, painted in lush, loose,...
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Linda Sue Park, illus. by Brian Pinkney. Clarion, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-328-78133-8
Newbery Medalist Park takes a character from her 2010 novel, A Long Walk to Water, and tells her story in a new format. Nya, a South Sudanese girl, must fetch water for her family from a distant well. Coretta Scott King Award–winner Pinkney paints...
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Linda Sue Park, illus. by Debbie Ridpath Ohi. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5344-3141-6
The spaceship carrying the robots Gurple and Preen, a crayon-drawn human crew in boxed “pods,” and a cargo of crayons has crashed on a desolate planet. “How are we ever going to repair the ship?” frets Park’s (Nya’s Long Walk) pessimistic, purple...
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Linda Sue Park, illus. by Robert Sae-Heng. Clarion, $16.99 (72p) ISBN 978-1-328-51513-1
In a classroom, teacher Ms. Chang poses a premise: “Imagine that your home is on fire. You’re allowed to save one thing./ Your family and pets are safe, so don’t worry about them./ Your Most Important Thing. Any size.” The students respond—some...
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