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In The Tunnel

ISBN-10: 0823459012
ISBN-13: 9780823459018
Author: Lee, Julie
Interest Level: 3-7
Publisher: Candlewick

Publication Date: October 2024

Copyright: 2023

Page Count: 352

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Interest Level

Grades 3-7

Reading Level

Accelerated Reader Level: 5.0
Accelerated Reader Points: 10.0

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Asia

JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Military & Wars

Description
Trapped in an enemy tunnel, a young refugee experiences the Korean War firsthand in this searing story of survival, loss, and hope, a companion to the Freeman Award-winning novel Brother's Keeper . Myung-gi knows war is coming: War between North and South Korea. Life in communist North Korea has become more and more unbearable--there is no freedom of speech, movement, association, or thought--and his parents have been carefully planning the family's escape. But when his father is abducted by the secret police, all those plans fall apart. How can Myung-gi leave North Korea without his dad? Especially when he believes that the abduction was his fault? Set during a cataclysmic war which shaped the world we know today, this is the story of one boy's coming-of-age during a time when inhumanity, lawlessness, and terror reigned supreme. With only each other, Myung-gi, his mother, and his twelve-year-old sister Yoomee do everything they can to protect one another. But gentle, quiet, bookish Myung-gi has plans to find his father at any
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