There's always so much fuss over baby Kiju that Sunhi suspects her family doesn't have any interest in her anymore. Kiju is a sweet baby, but Sunhi can't help being jealous. Her grandmother understands just how Sunhi feels, and soon she and Sunhi have worked out a way to make Kiju's first birthday a party for everyone--especially Kiju's "best older sister!"

The Best Older Sister

Children's Books

Choi, Sook Nyul

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Year of Impossible Goodbyes

This autobiographical story tells of ten-year-old Sookan and her family's suffering and humiliation in Korea, first under Japanese rule and after the Russians invade, and of a harrowing escape to South Korea.

Education & Reference

Clarion Books

When Yunmi's class plans a picnic in Central Park, her Korean grandmother, Halmoni, agrees to chaperone. But Yunmi worries that the other children will make fun of Halmoni's traditional Korean dress and unfamiliar food.

Halmoni and the Picnic

HMH Books for Young Readers

In the sequel to Year of Impossible Goodbyes, fifteen-year-old Sookan is living in a refugee camp in Pusan, a city in southern Korea, where she becomes involved in struggling to rebuild a normal life and to make decisions about her own life.

Echoes of the White Giraffe

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

In the conclusion of the story that began with Year of Impossible Goodbyes and Echoes of the White Giraffe, Sookan, a young Korean girl, travels to the terrifying new world of New York City to attend college.

Gathering of Pearls

Sook, Choi Nyul

When she travels to Korea with her grandmother, Halmoni, Yunmi looks forward to visiting relatives she has never met, but she also worries about whether Halmoni will want to return to New York.

Yunmi and Halmoni's Trip

It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to the family, but he cannot break their spirit. Sookan's father is with the resistance movement in Manchuria and her older brothers have been sent away to labor camps. Her mother is forced to supervise a sock factory and Sookan herself must wear a uniform and attend a Japanese school. Then the war ends. Out come the colorful Korean silks and bags of white rice. But Communist Russian troops have taken control of North Korea and once again the family is suppressed. Sookan and her family know their only hope for freedom lies in a dangerous escape to Americancontrolled South Korea. Here is the incredible story of one family's love for each other and their determination to risk everything to find freedom.

Yearling

In a sequel to Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Sookan, now fifteen, is a refugee again and survives the repressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea in the 1940s by making a dangerous escape to freedom. Reprint.

There's always so much fuss over baby Kiju that Sunhi suspects her family doesn't have any interest in her anymore. Kiju is a sweet baby, but Sunhi can't help being jealous. Her grandmother understands just how Sunhi feels, and soon she and Sunhi have worked out a way to make Kiju's first birthday a party for everyone--especially Kiju's "best older sister!"

BEST OLDER SISTER, THE (FCC) (Yearling First Choice Chapter Book)

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The Best Older Sister

Year of Impossible Goodbyes

Halmoni and the Picnic

Echoes of the White Giraffe

Gathering of Pearls

Yunmi and Halmoni's Trip

Year of Impossible Goodbyes

Echoes of the White Giraffe

BEST OLDER SISTER, THE (FCC) (Yearling First Choice Chapter Book)

Year of Impossible Goodbyes