Project Mulberry
Julia, a Korean-American, and her friend Patrick learn about tolerance, friendship, and patience while working together on a project about silkworms.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 89
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
Horrible Harry And The Dragon War
Working on a dragon project in Room 3B leads to a war between two good friends--Harry and Song Lee.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 63
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 430
subjects: arguments, friendship [X], dragons, horrible harry (fictitious character), fighting (psychology), schools, korean americans [X], horrible harry (fictional character)
Father's Rubber Shoes
Yungsu misses Korea terribly until he begins to make friends in America.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 380
Yoon And The Jade Bracelet
Although she really would have liked a jump rope for her birthday, Yoon is happy to receive a Korean picture book and a jade bracelet passed down from her grandmother; and when she wears the bracelet to school it seems as if her wish for a jump rope and a friend is about to come true.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: korean americans [X], friendship [X], bullies, bracelets, bullying, schools, schools stories
Project Mulberry
While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 46
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: korean americans [X], silkworms, prejudices, friendship [X], family, illinois, families, authorship, family life
Rosie's Tiger
In 1952 in Oklahoma, sixth grader Rosie enlists the aid of her new best friend, the flamboyant Cassandra, in trying to get rid of the Korean wife and stepson her older brother has brought back from the war.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Saying Goodbye
Ellen Sung explores her interest in creative writing and in her Korean heritage during her freshman year at Harvard.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
Juna's Jar
After her best friend, Hector, moves away, Juna's brother Minho tries to make her feel better by finding things to put in her special kimchi jar, and each night, whatever is in the jar takes her on a magical journey in search of Hector.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: korean americans [X], friendship [X], brothers and sisters, glass containers, imagination, picture books
Unidentified Suburban Object
Chloe Cho is a Korean American seventh-grader who would like to get in touch with many of the aspects of her heritage, but her parents are unwilling to talk about it--then when a class assignment forces Chloe to confront them directly, they finally tell her the truth about her family, which may just be too much for one girl to handle.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: korean americans [X], individuality, extraterrestrial beings, family life, friendship [X], identity (psychology), families, best friends, schools, identity
Krista Kim-bap
"Krista and Jason have been best friends since preschool. It never mattered that he was a boy with reddish brown hair and she was 'the Korean girl' at school.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: korean american children, cooking, korean, friendship [X], korean americans [X], korean cooking
Don't Look Down
Simone Yang is excited to be visiting her grandmother and her best friend Olive in Maine, but Olive and her friends want to visit the carnival that just arrived and ride the ferris wheel, and Simone is really, really afraid of heights; she does not want to let her friend down, but the rides at the Forever Fun Carnival are falling apart, the workers are creepy--and the fortune-telling machine is telling her "you are right to be scared.
FIC
year:
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fear, korean americans [X], ferris wheels, carnivals, friendship [X], maine, horror fiction
Frankly In Love
As the son of Korean immigrants in Southern California, high school senior Frank Li is expected to find a nice Korean girl to marry.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 54
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: friendship [X], dating (social customs), korean americans [X], racism, family life, california, high schools, school stories, large print books, schools, love, bildungsromans, romance fiction, bildungsromans, romance fiction, electronic books, families
Pippa Park Raises Her Game
"Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage girls, junior high school students, immigrant families, cyberbullying, friendship [X], basketball stories, scholarships, korean americans [X], private schools, schools
It's Girls Like You, Mickey
"Mickey faces a lot of challenges when starting seventh grade, but an instant connection with new student Sun Joo improves her outlook until Sydney, popular and mean, decides to make Sun Joo her friend"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: friendship [X], popularity, middle schools, korean americans [X], poverty, single-parent families, schools
Pippa Park Crush At First Sight
"Pippa Park picks up right where she left off...trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat, and fitting in.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: teenage girls, crushes, friendship [X], private schools, korean americans [X], realistic fiction, massachusetts