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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1953, on a remote island in South Korea, a young boy stows away on the ferry that is carrying his older brother and sister-in-law to the mainland. Fifty-two years later, Han Hyun-kyu is on a plane back to Korea, leaving behind his wife and grown children in America. It is his daughter, Jane-a war photographer recently injured in a bombing in Baghdad and forced to return to New York-who journeys to find him in the South Korean town where his brothers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Sean Suh is done with killing. After serving three years in a psychiatric prison, he's determined to stay away from temptation. But he can't resist Annabelle--beautiful, confident, incandescent Annabelle--who alone can see past the monster to the man inside. The man he's desperately trying to be. Then Annabelle disappears. Sean is sure she's been kidnapped--he witnessed her being taken firsthand--but the police are convinced that Sean himself is...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad's business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara...
26) Jin Woo
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Davey is dubious about having a new adopted brother from Korea, but when he finds out that his parents still love him, he decides that having a baby brother will be fine.
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 4
Language
English
Description
"It's time to pick a class president, and Mindy really wants to win--and she's basing her entire campaign on snacks and being kind, so how could she NOT be chosen? But there is one big thing that Mindy is not sure she can do--make a speech to her class about why she would be the best pick for president. Can Mindy face her fears and show the class--and herself--that she can be the best class president ever?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Olive Oh books volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When her school has an art show, Olive Oh is thrilled. Being creative is what she does best. But as she sees what her classmates create, she starts having doubts. What if they are better artists than she is? Or worse, what if she's all out of creative ideas?
30) Archer's quest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Kevin Kim helps Chu-mong, a legendary king of ancient Korea, return to his own time.
31) A giant problem
Author
Series
Mihi ever after volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Mihi's nemesis, Genevieve, travels to the Rainbow Realm, Mihi, Savannah, and Reese cross over to the fairy tale realm to save her and find a giant atop an enormous beanstalk wreaking havoc on the realm.
Author
Series
Lia Park volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Now full-time students at International Magic School, twelve-year-old Lia Park and her best friend, Joon, are tasked with recovering and protecting a lost heirloom before it's used to plunge the world into darkness and destroy humanity.
35) Drifting house
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, the stories presented in "Drifting House" illuminate a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present.
36) Off the rails
Author
Series
Mihi ever after volume 03
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Mihi and her friends head back to the Rainbow Realm to save Princess Pat from a destructive quest.
37) The evening hero
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dr. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life. Every day for the last fifty years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to Horse Breath's General Hospital, where, as an obstetrician, he treats the women and babies of the small rural Minnesota town he chose to call home. This was the life he longed for - the American dream. He immigrated from Korea after the Korean War, forced to leave his family, ancestors, village, and all...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel grappling with contested American identity, masculinity, and deportation, told in one of the most memorable adolescent voices in contemporary literature"--
Seventeen year old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance. His sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads to his deportation to South Korea,...
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 10
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition, First Aladdin paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Mindy, Dad, and Julie travel to Korea to mourn Grandpa's passing with family and for the annual Chuseok celebration, and while the occasion is a somber one, Mindy is determined to make her first official Mid-autumn Festival one to remember.
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 8
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition, First Aladdin paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mindy Kim can't wait to learn how to swim with her best friend, Sally! But during her first swim lesson, Mindy isn't so sure she can keep up. With a little help from Sally and Theodore the Mutt, can Mindy learn how to make a splash?"--
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