num_pages: 336
description: North Korea is known as the most repressive country on Earth with a dictatorial leader a starving population and harsh punishment for rebellion.Not the best place for a family vacation.Yet that's exactly where Mia Andrews finds herself on a tour with her aid-worker father and fractious older brother Simon. Mia was adopted from South Korea as a baby and the trip raises tough questions about where she really belongs. Then her dad is arrested for spying just as forbidden photographs of North Korean slave-labor camps fall into Mia's hands. The only way to save Dad: get the pictures out of the country. Thus Mia and Simon set off on a harrowing journey to the border without food money or shelter in a land where anyone who sees them might turn them in and getting caught could mean prison -- or worse.An exciting adventure that offers a rare glimpse into a compelling complicated nation In the Shadow of the Sun is an unforgettable novel of courage and survival.
language: English
title: In the Shadow of the Sun
publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books