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A piece of home

A child-friendly story about the trials and triumphs of starting over in a new place while keeping family and traditions close.

Kay's lucky coin variety

a novel
2016
Mary, a Korean girl growing up with her brother above her parents' convenience store in 1980s Toronto, is caught between the traditional culture of her parents and her desire to be a Canadian.

Bee-bim bop!

2008
A child, eager for a favorite meal, helps with the shopping, food preparation, and table setting.

Korean immigration

2004
An overview of immigration from Korea to the United States and Canada since the 1960s, when immigration laws were changed to permit greater numbers of people to enter these countries.

Bee-bim bop!

2005
A young girl, eager for a favorite meal, helps her mother with shopping, food preparation, and table setting. Presented in rhyming verse with illustrations.

Nothing to envy

ordinary lives in North Korea
2010
Follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years, bringing to life what it means to live under a repressive totalitarian regime that is, by choice, not connected to the Internet, where displays of affection are punished, informants are rewarded, and an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life.

Everything Asian

2009
David Kim celebrates his twelfth birthday shortly after he leaves his home in Seoul, Korea, with his mother and teenage sister, to join his father in New Jersey, and starts to work at his father's gift shop.

Gathering of pearls

1994
Sookan struggles to balance her new life as a college freshman in the United States with expectations from her family at home in Korea.

Nothing to envy

ordinary lives in North Korea
2009
Chronicles the lives of six North Koreans over a span of fifteen years, exploring how the lives of ordinary citizens were impacted by key social, political, and economic events of the time.

Flying feet

2010
Jinho, frustrated by the limitations of his traditional tae kwon do training, finds himself returning to the ancient code when he becomes involved in an underground mixed martial arts club and faces an opponent known as the Ripper.

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