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Author Lee, Sungju, author.

Title Every falling star : the true story of how I survived and escaped North Korea / Sungju Lee & Susan McClelland.

Publication Info. New York : Amulet Books, 2016.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  951.9305 LEE    ---  Available
Description 314 pages ; 22 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
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Study Program MG+ RL 5.9 12.0 184101
Indexed In: Junior Library Guild
Summary This is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. Sungju tells what it was like to be separated from his parents; to be alone; to have to create a new family with his gang; his "brothers"; to be hungry every day; and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution.
Audience Ages 14 & up.
Grades 9 & up.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subject Memoir.
Lee, Sungju.
Boys -- Korea (North) -- Biography.
Homeless boys -- Korea (North)
Street children -- Korea (North)
Survival -- Korea (North)
Korea (North) -- History -- 1994-2011 -- Biography.
Korea (North) -- Social conditions.
Added Author McClelland, Susan, author.
ISBN 9781419721328 (hardcover)

 
    
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