BUYING ADVISORY: EL - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Junie has tried to stay low at school, but someone is writing racist graffiti around her school and she doesn’t want to keep quiet. Also, her history teacher has created a project for them, so Junie decides to interview her grandparents, who escaped from Korea in the 1950’s. She is astonished by the danger they lived through and draws strength to change her present from their experiences.
The grandparents’ stories are told as flashbacks, which makes them more immediate feeling than if Junie had just related their stories. I am loving seeing more books about the Korean War – especially from the perspective of the people themselves, not from only American soldiers’ points of view.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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