I love this book.... Great WWI book

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	• When My Name Was Keoko Linda Sue Park Yearling, 2004 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 36 reviews view larger image
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this book is essential for kids, they need to know about Asia's war and history, expecially special circumstance in Korea. it is very useful to understand. i was so impressive about there live under Japanese.

I love this book.... Great WWI book

This book is a great book. It's not too short and not too long. It is a book all about WWI, the droppings of the bombs and about a family of Koreans living under Japenese order. In the end, it all ends out okay.

Linda Sue Park is a great writer and I recommend this book book for all ages from 10 and up.

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Great book for adults and teens

This is a beautiful and powerful book that every adolescent girl and boy should read. I especially loved the way Park weaves Keoko's coming-of-age story in a way that honored traditional Korean values. It would have been easy to use the story to disparage those values, an all too common technique these days. But Park resisted that urge and the result is a warm-hearted and endearing story that readers will not soon forget.

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When my name was Keoko

"When we chose our new names, I pointed to the letter K. I went around whispering over and over, "Keoko. Kaneyama Keoko. Keoko." I could think about "Kaneyama Keoko" as a name but not as my name." When my name was Keoko makes reading enjoyable for kids eight and above.

Linda Sue Park writes When my name was Keoko to help remind us what happened in Korea during WWII. She writes this book in two different points of view, Tae-yul's and Sun-hee's, a brother and sister. This book focuses on a their life in Korea when it was under Japan's occupation. Koreans are forced to do whatever the Japanese tell them to do. Seeing what the Japanese made the Koreans do like study Japanese at school and speak Japanese everywhere except at home made me realize how cruel some people can be.

This historical fiction novel is filled with adventure. It is an interesting way to learn about a point in history that not many people know about. Change my name, I don't think so!

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I love this book.... Great WWI book

This book is a great book. It's not too short and not too long. It is a book all about WWII, the droppings of the bombs and about a family of Koreans living under Japenese order. In the end, it all ends out okay.

Linda Sue Park is a great writer and I recommend this book book for all ages from 10 and up.

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Sun-hee and her older brother Tae-yul are proud of their Korean heritage. Yet they live their lives under Japanese occupation. All students must read and write in Japanese and no one can fly the Korean flag. Hardest of all is when the Japanese Emperor forces all Koreans to take Japanese names. Sun-hee and Tae-yul become Keoko and Nobuo. Korea is torn apart by their Japanese invaders during World War II. Everyone must help with war preparations, but it doesn?t mean they are willing to defend Japan. Tae-yul is about to risk his life to help his family, while Sun-hee stays home guarding life-and-death secrets.

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