Sook Nyul Choi

A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.

Year of Impossible Goodbyes

A Korean American girl's third grade class helps her newly arrived grandmother feel more comfortable with her new life in the United States.

Halmoni and the Picnic

Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul.

Echoes of the White Giraffe

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.

Sook Nyul Choi

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