So far from the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
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So far from the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Language
eng
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Literary form
fiction
Main title
So far from the Bamboo Grove
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881469619
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by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Summary
A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II. Though Japanese, eleven-year-old Yoko has lived with her family in northern Korea near the border with China all her life. But when the Second World War comes to an end, Japanese on the Korean peninsula are suddenly in terrible danger; the Korean people want control of their homeland and they want to punish the Japanese, who have occupied their nation for many years. Yoko, her mother and sister are forced to flee from their beautiful house with its peaceful bamboo grove. Their journey is terrifying -- and remarkable. It's a true story of courage and survival
Target audience
juvenile
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