So Far From The Bamboo Grove

A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko, a young Japanese girl who has lived all her life with her family in northern Korea, escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.

Related: Asia, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Japan

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