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Brother's keeper / Julie Lee.

Lee, Julie (Children's fiction writer), (author.).

Summary:

North Korea, 1950. Twelve-year-old Sora Pak and her family live under an iron set of rules: No travel without a permit. No criticism of the government. No absences from community meetings. Repeat slogans. Don't trust your neighbors. Don't speak your mind. You are being watched. There is no hope for escape...until war breaks out between North and South Korea. Suddenly there is chaos, and everyone is fleeing. The Paks' plan to get to freedom is simple: they will walk hundreds of miles from their tiny mountain village to the South Korean city of Busan. But when a bombing changes everything, Sora must get herself and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, to South Korea alone - across rivers, over mountains, around enemy soldiers and border guards, and even through Pyongyang itself, all while staving off frostbite and starvation. Can two children survive three hundred miles of war zone in winter?

Record details

ISBN: 9780823444946
ISBN: 0823444945
Physical Description: 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Holiday House, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:	Ages 8-12. Holiday House. Grades 4-6. Holiday House.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader MG 4.7 9 9 510613
Awards Note:	A Junior Library Guild Selection.