Name: Every Falling Star
Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9781419721328

Susan Elizabeth Mcclelland

Sungju Lee

How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

Every Falling Star

Nadine 

#YA #NorthKorea - a story set in a place where you hardly hear about anything - least of all the life of young children.
A very gripping story of Sungju Lee and how his life changed after his father was disgraced and the family moved to the country side. Then his father and mother disappeared and he became a street child for 3 years. 
Couldn't put it down.

KADY BURNS

Such an interesting story and insight into life in North Korea

Kate

An incredibly insightful, heartbreaking and fascinating read. As someone who's not as educated on North Korea and it's history as they'd like, I found this to be such a brilliantly educational and page turning read. I loved the way it was somewhat simply written, meaning it was very easy to follow and understand, yet at moments it read almost like fiction and I had to keep reminding myself that, in fact, this is very much true life. I'd highly recommend this to any one who, like me, are looking for something to help begin their education on North Korea and it's history. SungjuLee shares his heartbreaking, incredible and brave story, one I'm very glad to have read.

Susan Elizabeth McClelland

The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

Jeweliet Coffee

Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, 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. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his “brothersâ€?; to be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.

Every Falling Star How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

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