* "Wonderfully telling scenes evoke the time, the place, and—more subtly—the deep-running emotions that these people, bound by customs and besieged by troubles, were so rarely free to acknowledge."—Kirkus Reviews, poin...

After enduring the cruelties of the Japanese military, occupying Korea in 1945, ten-year-old Sookan and her family must face a life under the rule of communism, and decide, instead, to flee to America. Reprint. K. SLJ. C. NYT. A...

"It is easy to fall in love with this gentle girl. . . . Readers who share in this emotional journey with Sookan will grow along with her in wisdom."—School Library Journal "Just as oysters make pearls out of grains o...