Bibliograph

Every Falling Star, the True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

Type

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Every Falling Star, the True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Every Falling Star

Nature of contents

dictionaries

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, MG+, 5.9, 12, 184101.

Sub title

the True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

Summary

Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his 'brothers'; to be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist

Target audience

adult

Classification