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Transit Children's Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A heartwarming story about family, resilience, fashion, and staying true to who you are-told through three generations of tailors in a rapidly changing Seoul. When Deokgu opens a brand new tailor shop in town, all of Seoul is skeptical of his modern styles. Who would want to wear such funny-looking suits? But Deokgu remains devoted to his craft, and it's not long before the shop begins to flourish, becoming a beloved fixture in the community. Written...
4) Anna K away
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Series
Anna K volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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After the scandal surrounding the tragic death of her first love, Alexis, Anna K's father takes her to South Korea to "connect with family" but it feels more like exile. Back in the states, all her friends are spending their summers in different ways, but also each needs to face the reality of their relationships in order to move forward in the wake of last school year.
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From the Publisher: Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter's craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated-until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min's irascible...
7) Bloody Seoul
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Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Supremely loyal, sixteen-year-old Rocky expects to take over his father's notorious gang, Three Star Pa, one day but after catching his father in a lie, discovers they are not as alike as he believed.
Rocky is loyal to the Three Star Pa gang, which his father runs in Seoul, Korea; to his best friends, who accompany him everywhere he goes; to his ever-escalating public bullying of Ha-na, a girl at school; and, finally, to the memory of his mother,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In a Korean village where being strong and loud is valued, tiny Soe-in is ridiculed but when the sun disappears, Soe-in dares to find the spirit tiger and set things right. Includes note about the position of tigers in Korean culture.
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Mindy, Dad, and Julie travel to Korea to mourn Grandpa's passing with family and for the annual Chuseok celebration, and while the occasion is a somber one, Mindy is determined to make her first official Mid-autumn Festival one to remember.
12) Let's play jegi
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Publisher
Brown Books Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Dongje finds his friends playing jegi without him, he confronts Han, the jegi champion of Yonggol, only to find out that they don't want to play with him because he's the worst player. But after Dongje's grandpa gives him a colorful jegi made out of feathers, he is shocked at how easily he picks up the game! Jealous of Dongje's new skills, Han challenges him to a game, but is holding the title of jegi master really the most important part of...
14) B, Book, and me
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Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When outcasts b and Rang's friendship ends they are completely alone until a mysterious man, Book, introduces them to the part of town where lunatics live--the End.
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Language
English
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"Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she’ll simply grow out of it if she tries hard enough, but Aimee’s fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life. When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom—a moment Aimee has never remembered...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Seoul, Korea.
In this glittering city where the latest trends are born, Melody finds herself swept away by luxury, romance, and family drama... but is this a place she could ever call home?
Thanks to a tiny transgression after school one day, Melody is shocked to discover that her parents have decided to move her and her mom out of New York Ciy to join her father in Seoul—immediately! Barely having had the chance to...
In this glittering city where the latest trends are born, Melody finds herself swept away by luxury, romance, and family drama... but is this a place she could ever call home?
Thanks to a tiny transgression after school one day, Melody is shocked to discover that her parents have decided to move her and her mom out of New York Ciy to join her father in Seoul—immediately! Barely having had the chance to...
17) Brother's keeper
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
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English
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Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl dutifully consumes her grandmother's strength-building abalone porridge and practices her breath control before suiting up and overcoming fears to make remarkable discoveries.
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Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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This unique picture book invites young readers into the natural beauty of the DMZ, where salmon, spotted seals, and mountain goats freely follow the seasons and raise their families in this 2.5-mile-wide, 150-mile-long corridor where no human may tread. But the vivid seasonal flora and fauna are framed by ever-present rusty razor wire, warning signs, and locked gates-and regularly interrupted by military exercises that continue decades after a 1953...
20) En el zooló̤gico
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Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Económica
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
A little girl explores the zoo while her parents are searching for her.
"Una niña va con sus padres al zoológico; todo parece normal, pero pronto se dará cuenta de que algo ha pasado: ¡los animales han desaparecido de sus jaulas! Sólo hay una manera de transformar ese zoológico gris y vacío en un mundo lleno de color, donde la niña juega con el gorila, el oso, los hipopótamos, los elefantes, las jirafas y otros animales más. Al mismo tiempo,...
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