So Far from the Bamboo Grove (rpkg)
Edition: 1st Beech Tree ed edition
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: May 24, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780688131159
Subjects: People & Places - Asia; Juvenile Fiction; Children: Grades 4-6; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; World War, 1939-1945; Watkins, Yoko Kawashima; Korea; Biographical - Other; Juvenile Fiction / Biographical / Other; Action & Adventure - General; Fiction; Japan
First sentence: IT WAS ALMOST MIDNIGHT ON JULY 29, 1945, when my mother, my elder sister Ko, and I, carrying as many of our belongings as we could on our backs, fled our home in its bamboo grove, our friends, and our town, Nanam, in northern Korea, forever.