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A piece of home / Jeri Watts ; illustrated by Hyewon Yum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watts, Jeri Hanel, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moving, Household--Juvenile fiction.
- Moving, Household.
- Koreans--West Virginia--Juvenile fiction.
- Koreans.
- Koreans--United States--Juvenile fiction.
- Immigrants--Juvenile fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Picture books for children.
- Koreans--United States--Fiction.
- Immigrants--Fiction.
- Moving (Households)--Fiction.
- Flowers--Fiction.
- West Virginia.
- West Virginia--Juvenile fiction.
- West Virginia--Fiction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- A child-friendly story about the trials and triumphs of starting over in a new place while keeping family and traditions close.
- When Hee Jun's family moves from Korea to West Virginia he struggles to adjust to his new home. He can't understand anything the teacher says, and even the sky seems smaller and darker. Hee Jun begins to learn English words and make friends on the playground. One day at a classmate's house he sees a flower he knows from his garden in Korea: mugunghwa, or rose of Sharon. Hee Jun is happy to bring a shoot to his grandmother to plant a "piece of home" in their new garden.
- Notes:
- A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
- Ezra Jack Keats Award, New Writer, 2017
- ISBN:
- 0763669717
- 9780763669713
- OCLC:
- 922155482
- Publisher Number:
- 99987197223
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