This series introduces young readers to the diverse cultures and peoples of different countries around the world.
Welcome to My Country: South Korea
Author: Book Importer
The Ghost Fox
While his father is away from their Chinese village, Little Lee fights to save his mother’s soul from an evil fox creature that has assumed human form.
Tongues Of Jade
A retelling of seventeen Chinese American folktales from a variety of Chinese communities in the United States.
Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam
A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.
Sagumpari Han Chogak: A Single Shard (Korean Edition Vol. 2)
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters’ village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. (This book is entirely in Korean).
George The Drummer Boy
More than two hundred years ago, Boston belonged to the British. George was a drummer boy with the King’s soldiers there. He wanted to be friends with the people of Boston. But they did not like the soldiers. They shouted and threw things at them.
One night, George and the other soldiers were sent on a secret mission. They crossed the river and headed toward Concord. George had no idea that this was the start of the American Revolution.
Hiroshima: A Novella
Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.
Mountain Light
Swept up in one of the local rebellions against the Manchus in China, nineteen-year-old Squeaky loses his home and travels to America to seek his fortune among the gold fields of California. Sequel to “The Serpent’s Children.”
The Kite Fighters
In Korea in 1473, eleven-year-old Young-sup overcomes his rivalry with his older brother Kee-sup, who as the first-born son receives special treatment from their father, and combines his kite-flying skill with Kee-sup’s kite-making skill in an attempt to attract the notice of Korea’s young king, who chooses Young-sup to fly the royal kite in the New Year kite-flying competition.
Sagumpari Han Chogak: A Single Shard (Korean Edition Vol. 1)
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters’ village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. (This book is entirely in Korean).