korean americans

Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.

When Hee Jun's family moves from Korea to West Virginia, he struggles to adjust to his new home, where none of his classmates look like him and he can't understand anything the teacher says - even when she speaks s-l-o-w-l-y and loudly to him.

After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.

As she tries to enjoy her senior year and choose which college she will attend, Korean American Ellen Sung must deal with the prejudice of some of her classmates and pressure from her parents to get good grades.

Korean American Jae Hwa Lee, being kept as a servant by the god Kud, finds an opportunity to break free when she is sent to steal the powerful Black Turtle orb, and returns to Marc, her true love, in hopes of regaining his trust and with him, destroy the darkness that threatens to overwhelm Korea.

Chloe Cho is a Korean American seventh-grader who would like to get in touch with many of the aspects of her heritage, but her parents are unwilling to talk about it--then when a class assignment forces Chloe to confront them directly, they finally tell her the truth about her family, which may just be too much for one girl to handle.

After her best friend, Hector, moves away, Juna's brother Minho tries to make her feel better by finding things to put in her special kimchi jar, and each night, whatever is in the jar takes her on a magical journey in search of Hector. Includes glossary.

Sixteen-year-old Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on the football team but also with the tensions in his relationship with his strict father.

Kwan Wilson, seventeen, was a basketball star until he crashed his car, killing his mother and paralyzing himself from the waist down, and now, while living with his grandmother in Delray Beach, Florida, he gets an internship at a genetics laboratory where shark stem cells are being tested on rats to cure cancer and spinal injuries, and cannot resist injecting himself.

Examines the history of Asian Americans' political involvement in the United States, with an overview of the group's political process, participation in electoral politics, protest politics, social movements, and political office-holding.