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In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.

Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.

Discusses the history, geography, daily life, and culture of the Asian nation on the peninsula between China and Japan.

In eighteenth-century Korea, after Sang-hee's father injures his ankle, Sang-hee attempts to take over the taski of lighting the evening fire which signals to the palace that all is well.

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge near a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

Briefly discusses some of the reasons that Koreans have come to live in the United States, how they have preserved Korean customs and traditions in their new homeland, and what life is like for them here.

Describes the history, geography, customs, family life, school life, sports and games, and folklore of Korea. Also discusses the problems created by the split of the north and south into two nations, the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the anticommunist Republic of Korea.

You, the reader, are asked to go to Korea by the CIA to help locate a missing agent.