So Far from the Bamboo Grove
So Far from the Bamboo Grove

Author: Yoko Kawashima Watkins

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2014-06-24

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 006234711X

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In the final days of World War II, Koreans were determined to take back control of their country from the Japanese and end the suffering caused by the Japanese occupation. As an eleven-year-old girl living with her Japanese family in northern Korea, Yoko is suddenly fleeing for her life with her mother and older sister, Ko, trying to escape to Japan, a country Yoko hardly knows. Their journey is terrifying—and remarkable. It's a true story of courage and survival that highlights the plight of individual people in wartime. In the midst of suffering, acts of kindness, as exemplified by a family of Koreans who risk their own lives to help Yoko's brother, are inspiring reminders of the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

A Study Guide for Yoko Kawashima Watkins's "So Far From the Bamboo Grove"
A Study Guide for Yoko Kawashima Watkins's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016-06-29

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 1410358410

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A Study Guide for Yoko Kawashima Watkins's "So Far From the Bamboo Grove," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

My Brother, My Sister, and I
My Brother, My Sister, and I

Author: Yoko Kawashima Watkins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-06-23

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1439107874

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The author of the critically acclaimed SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE continues her autobiography, describing the hardships, poverty, tragedies, and struggles of life for her and her two older siblings, living as refugees in post-World War II Japan.

Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Year of Impossible Goodbyes

Author: Sook Nyul Choi

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 1991-09-13

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0547348746

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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.

The Sound of Silence
The Sound of Silence

Author: Katrina Goldsaito

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0316271292

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"Do you have a favorite sound?" little Yoshio asks. The musician answers, "The most beautiful sound is the sound of ma, of silence." But Yoshio lives in Tokyo, Japan: a giant, noisy, busy city. He hears shoes squishing through puddles, trains whooshing, cars beeping, and families laughing. Tokyo is like a symphony hall! Where is silence? Join Yoshio on his journey through the hustle and bustle of the city to find the most beautiful sound of all.

What I Came to Tell You
What I Came to Tell You

Author: Tommy Hays

Publisher:

Published: 2014-11-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781484439333

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A boy finds solace in his art and community after his mother dies and his father retreats into himself.

Hiroshima
Hiroshima

Author: John Hersey

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0593082362

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Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.