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So Far from the Bamboo Grove
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So Far from the Bamboo Grove (1994) (edit title/settings)

by Yoko Kawashima Watkins (Author) (edit contributors)

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Though Japanese, eleven-year-old Yoko has lived with her family in northern Korea near the border with China all her life. But when the Second World War comes to an end, Japanese on the Korean peninsula are suddenly in terrible danger; the Korean people want control of their homeland and they... read more

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a little girl and her elder sister ko and her mom go on a journey to find there lost brother/son and find a place of peace and of course no bombs.

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It was almost midnight on July29,1945 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.

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This is book 84 of 100 in ALA's Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009. (authoritative list)

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  1. Yoko Kawashima Watkins (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Lothrop Lee & Shepard
Country: U.S.A
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 9780688131159
Page Count: 192

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