A Step from Heaven by An Na publisher and date: Front Street, 2002 genre: realistic fiction age/grade: young adult Synopsis (from www.bn.com) 2001 National Book Award Nominee When she is five, Young Ju Park and her family move from Korea to California. During the flight, they climb so far into the sky she concludes they [...]
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Weedflower Author: Cynthia Kadohata Publisher and date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006 Genres: historical fiction Age/Grade: Grades 5 and up Synopsis: (from www.bn.com) Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in [...]
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