The Resource Every Falling Star
Every Falling Star
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The item Every Falling Star represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Merrimack Valley Library Consortium.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Every Falling Star represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Merrimack Valley Library Consortium.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea.Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains.Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, "his brothers," to daily 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
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- 9781613123409
- Label
- Every Falling Star
- Title
- Every Falling Star
- Summary
- Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea.Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains.Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, "his brothers," to daily 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
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- Lee, Sungju
- McClelland, Susan Elizabeth
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- Biography & Autobiography
- Geography
- Young Adult Nonfiction
- Multi-Cultural
- Label
- Every Falling Star
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:21c39b91-8501-4470-a259-b4316ff6ae14
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781613123409
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- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- Every Falling Star
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:21c39b91-8501-4470-a259-b4316ff6ae14
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781613123409
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
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