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101) Bright
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Now that Girls Forever is the number-one K-pop group in the world, Rachel Kim is famous and happy, but when she meets Alex she considers breaking the rules of fame to fall in love.
103) Halmoni's day
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Jennifer, a Korean American, is worried that her grandmother, visiting from Korea, will embarrass her on her school's Grandparents' Day, but the event brings her understanding and acceptance.
104) The trip back home
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her mother travel to Korea to visit their extended family.
107) Behind the mask
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Kimin, a young Korean-American boy, has trouble deciding on a Halloween costume, but as he looks through an old trunk of his grandfather's things, he suddenly unlocks a childhood mystery.
108) Class president
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Aladdin hardback edition.
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.
109) The fold
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better.
110) Necessary roughness
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on the football team but also with the tensions in his relationship with his strict father.
111) Juna's jar
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After her best friend, Hector, moves away, Juna's brother Minho tries to make her feel better by finding things to put in her special kimchi jar, and each night, whatever is in the jar takes her on a magical journey in search of Hector. Includes glossary.
112) Juna and Appa
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young Korean American girl enjoys helping her father in their dry cleaning shop, but when a customer berates her father for losing a jacket, Juna goes on a magical quest to help her father recover what is lost"--
113) Cooper's lesson
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When Cooper, a biracial Korean-American boy, feels uncomfortable trying to speak Korean in Mr. Lee's grocery, his bad behavior eventually leads to a change in his attitude.
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.
115) Fireworks
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Lulu Li has her last summer before college all planned out. But her plans go awry when she learns that Kite Xu, her old next-door neighbor and childhood friend, will be returning home from South Korea. Lulu hasn't seen Kite since eighth grade, after he left the country to pursue a career in K-pop...Star-struck and nostalgic, Lulu tries to reconnect with Kite...The harder Lulu tries to deny her feelings, the stronger they get. But how could a K-pop...
116) Gilded
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jae Hwa Lee is a Korean-American girl with a black belt, a deadly proclivity with steel-tipped arrows, and a chip on her shoulder the size of Korea itself. When her widowed dad uproots her to Seoul from her home in L.A., Jae thinks her biggest challenges will be fitting into a new school and dealing with her dismissive Korean grandfather. Then she discovers that a Korean demi-god, Haemosu, has been stealing the soul of the oldest...
119) Not your average Jo
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality! Things at Carlmont Academy start out strong: She joins...
120) A sky of paper stars
Author
Pub. Date
[2023].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Middle schooler Yuna, born in America to Korean parents, struggles with feeling too Korean to fit in with her American peers at school. Frustrated with her fractured life and desperate to fit in, Yuna makes a wish on paper stars to return to Korea so she might feel normal somewhere. When the unexpected death of her halmoni (grandmother) makes Yuna's wish come true, Yuna is wracked with guilt and feels more fragile than ever as she realizes she also...
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