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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang - and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the state soon recognize the boy's loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself "a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world," Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The heart-wrenching "New York Times"-bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped. Harden unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin's shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Introverted Gi and radiant Il-sun are sold as sex workers by Il-sun's suitor, first in South Korea and then in the U.S. Though their captivity outside North Korea is even crueler than the oppression, they endure on their path to freedom.
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Language
English
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Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population, illustrating what it means to live under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"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...
6) North Korea
Author
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Examines the history, geography, government, and cultural and religious roots of North Korea, and discusses modern life and concerns in the Asian country.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Set at the turn of the 21st century in China, this novel follows the daily life of a Chinese ginseng hunter. He is little aware of the world outside until shadowy figures hiding in the fields, bodies floating in the river, and rumors of thievery and murder begin to intrude on his cherished solitude. On one of his monthly trips to Yanji, where he buys supplies and visits a brothel, he meets a young North Korean prostitute. Through her vivid tales,...
Author
Series
I escaped volume 1
Publisher
Best Day Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
14-year-old Dae has been taught that North Korea is the best place in the world. Yet the painfully skinny boy can't help wondering why all his family has to eat is watery porridge made from grass. At school, Dae and his friends bow before the giant portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, their clothes flapping around their bony limbs. Dae begins to question why the Great Leaders look so well fed. When Dae's beloved father is hauled away to a hard-labor...
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English
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Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society....
10) North Korea
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, geography, wildlife, government, economy, religion, culture, and people of North Korea.
11) North Korea
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Contains the history, religions, wildlife, culture, fact file of the country, timeline, glossary, and places to find out more about the country.
13) Able One
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
When communications satellites are destroyed by a rogue North Korean faction that is also plotting a thermonuclear attack, the fate of the world rests in the untested technology and crew of a laser-enabled 747 designed to eliminate missiles in flight.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"The first of its kind, this book provides a unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. Mike Kim, who worked with refugees on the Chinese border for four years, recounts their experiences of enduring famine, sex-trafficking, and torture, as well as the inspirational stories of those who overcame tremendous adversity to escape the repressive regime of their homeland and make new lives."--BOOK JACKET.
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English
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"It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from the capture she expected. Instead of taking her in, there's an offer on the table, a one-shot deal that would allow Bianca to walk away scot-free as if they'd never found her. And all she has to do is run one last mission--the kind she might never return from. But if Bianca wants to go back to her...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jean Echenoz's sly and playful novels have won critical and popular acclaim in France as well as in the United States, where he has been profiled by the New Yorker and called the "most distinctive voice of his generation" by The Washington Post. With his wonderfully droll and intriguing new work Special Envoy, Echenoz turns his hand to the espionage novel which, when published in France, stormed the bestseller lists. Special Envoy begins with an old...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape.Parks family was loving and close-knit, but life in North Korea was brutal, practically medieval. Park would regularly go without food and was made to believe that, Kim Jong Il, the countrys dictator,...
18) North Korea
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Provides information about North Korea, with emphasis on its geography, culture, history, economy, and government.
19) My freedom trip
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mill Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of a young girl's escape from North Korea, based on the life of the authors' mother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the most isolated country on earth. Mia Andrews doesn't know much about North Korea. She's heard only that a dictator controls everything, lots of people don't have enough to eat, and many more are forced to work in harsh labor camps. Not the best place for a family vacation. Yet that's exactly where Mia finds herself, on a tour of North Korea with her aid-worker father and surly older brother, Simon. Then, out of nowhere, Dad is arrested...