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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.
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English
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"Olive Oh can't wait to go camping with her best friend Marcus Wong and his family. They'll see stars, observe nature, and--best of all--get away from Olive's bossy older siblings. Then a week of rain threatens to cancel the camping trip. Will Olive end up stuck at home?"--
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English
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"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
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English
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While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Between the chapters are short dialogues between the author and main character about the writing of the book.
10) Shelter
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Kyung Cho's home is worth less money than he owes. A tenure-track professor, he and his wife, Gillian, have always lived beyond their means. Now their decisions have caught up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family's future: all he wants is to provide the home that was denied him to their son. Not that he ever wanted for pleasing things -- his father moved the family from Korea, and made good money engineering patents for the university that...
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When her school has an art show, Olive Oh is thrilled. Being creative is what she does best. But as she sees what her classmates create, she starts having doubts. What if they are better artists than she is? Or worse, what if she's all out of creative ideas?
13) Behind the mask
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Kimin, a young Korean-American boy, has trouble deciding on a Halloween costume, but as he looks through an old trunk of his grandfather's things, he suddenly unlocks a childhood mystery.
14) Halmoni's day
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Jennifer, a Korean American, is worried that her grandmother, visiting from Korea, will embarrass her on her school's Grandparents' Day, but the event brings her understanding and acceptance.
15) The name jar
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English
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After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
16) Mommy's hometown
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a young boy and his mother travel to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined until he visits the river where she used to play and sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain.
17) No kimchi for me
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Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
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"Yoomi hates stinky spicy kimchi--until Grandma makes kimchi pancakes for her!"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Adopted from Korea by Italian parents, fourteen-year-old Joseph Calderaro begins to make important self-discoveries about race and family after his social studies teacher assigns an essay on cultural heritage and tracing the past.
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Publisher
Tyndale Momentum, a nonfiction imprint Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence. As a Korean American, she wandered between seemingly opposing worlds, struggling to find a voice to speak and a firm place for her feet to land. The world taught Tasha that her Korean normal was a barrier to belonging--that assimilation was the only way she would ever be truly accepted. But if that were true, did that mean...
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