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62) Yolk
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
67) Gilded
Author
Series
Gilded volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jae Hwa Lee is a Korean-American girl with a black belt, a deadly proclivity with steel-tipped arrows, and a chip on her shoulder the size of Korea itself. When her widowed dad uproots her to Seoul from her home in L.A., Jae thinks her biggest challenges will be fitting into a new school and dealing with her dismissive Korean grandfather. Then she discovers that a Korean demi-god, Haemosu, has been stealing the soul of the oldest...
Author
Series
Anna K volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything.
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Korean American Pippa Park picks up right where she left off . . . trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat, and fitting in. Eliot, her math tutor--and the cutest boy at school--is finally paying attention to her. And Marvel--her childhood friend--is making her required volunteering much more interesting. But things with the Royals, her new friends and teammates who rule the school, still feel a bit...
Author
Series
Cul-de-sac kids volume 2
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Chicken pox interferes with Abby's birthday surprise for her adopted Korean brother.
72) Shelter: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Kyung Cho's home is worth less money than he owes. A tenure-track professor, he and his wife, Gillian, have always lived beyond their means. Now their decisions have caught up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family's future: all he wants is to provide the home that was denied him to their son. Not that he ever wanted for pleasing things -- his father moved the family from Korea, and made good money engineering patents for the university that...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Mr. and Mrs. Cho run a successful chain of Hawai'ian plate lunch restaurants, and their adult children are finding their way in the world: 21-year-old Grace is graduating in a few months, and 25-year-old Jacob is teaching English in Seoul. They're set to take over the restaurants when Umma and Appa retire. But when Jacob is captured by the South Korean government for attempting to run across the DMZ, the Chos' peaceful lives are shattered. What could...
74) Finding my hat
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Jin-Han describes his life growing up with his mother and father, immigrants from Korea, and his little sister as they move to different cities with his parents' business.
75) My tree
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A boy makes a connection with a plum tree after moving to a new home"--
76) Anna K away
Author
Series
Anna K volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Anna K spends a summer with her father and his family in South Korea, while in the United States, Lolly and Steven, Kimmie and Dustin, and Bea all face relationship issues.
77) Moving day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Annie Kim does not budge when her family tells her it is time to move to their new house, but then she notices the new puppy with them. Includes two activities.
78) Seoulmates
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out--the perfect summer with her boyfriend, Nate, and then a fun senior year with their friends. But then Nate does what everyone else in Hannah's life seems to do--he leaves her, claiming they have nothing in common. He and all her friends are newly obsessed with K-pop and K-dramas, and Hannah is not. After years of trying to embrace the American part and shunning the Korean side of her Korean American identity...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Jasmine Yap plans to move in with her long-time boyfriend, Paul, before starting a nursing program at community college-- until she catches Paul cheating. To her giant, overprotective family, Paul's loss is their golden ticket to showing Jasmine that she deserves much more. When Jasmine refuses to meet anyone new, the family set us the Jasmine Project. Their plan: use Jasmine's graduation party as an opportunity for her to meet the most eligible teen...
80) XOXO
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
Cello prodigy Jenny's goal is to get into a prestigious music conservatory. When she meets Jaewoo in her uncle's Los Angeles karaoke bar, it's clear he is the kind of boy who would uproot her careful plans. In a moment of spontaneity she allows him to pull her out of her comfort zone for one unforgettable night of adventure-- before he disappears without a word. Three months later, when Jenny and her mother arrive in South Korea to take care of her...