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When My Name Was Keoko

Linda Sue Park

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 5074 Users | 747 Reviews

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Original Title:	When My Name Was Keoko
ISBN:	0440419441 (ISBN13: 9780440419440)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Jane Addams Children's Book Award Nominee for Older Children (2003), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2004)

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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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Title	:	When My Name Was Keoko
Author	:	Linda Sue Park
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	January 13th 2004 by Yearling (first published March 18th 2002)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Cultural. Asia

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This book had been sitting on my TBR list for ages. Even when I finally checked it out of the library it took weeks for me to actually start reading it. But I decided to start it today, and I'm so glad I did. I connected to this book on a personal level that no book have ever been able to achieve for me. My paternal grandmother is Korean. She grew up in Seoul during WW2, and I remember her telling me stories about how she had to help with war preparations at school as a child. Reading about

This was a wonderful book on many levels. It has poetry, compelling articulate characters, tells a believable story of survival and dignity in the midst of a dehumanizing situation. It taught me about a part of WWII that I must have slept through in High School World History. I now understand a little more about a culture I knew little or nothing about(except that Kimichi is something you don't swallow a lot of if you have never tasted it before.) I have a little more insight into the current

This was a really moving story, and I learned a lot about both Korean culture and a very challenging time in history. Shifting between the two sibling's perspectives gave a nice wide view of what was happening in Korea during the Second World War, and the characters were interesting. The ending very much felt like a "children's lit" kind of ending, but it was completely unbelievable. I would definitely recommend this to kids who like historical fiction; I actually saw a lot of parallels between

When My Name Was Keokol is written in the first person, but with an interesting twist. The story of the Kim family in Korea during World War II is told in the alternating voice of Sun-hee, 10, and her brother, Tai-yul, 13. The story begins in 1940. The Japanese have occupied Korea since 1910, systematically suppressing Korean culture in favor of their own, and now, they want every Korean to change their names to a Japanese name. Sun-hee becomes Keoko, Tae-yul is given the name Nobuo and their

AND, I taught it! First read: I want to teach this book. I want to teach this book. I want to teach this book.I've decided that I'm tired of WWII units only being about Hitler and the Holocaust. I suggest that teachers bring in books about Stalin (like Between Shades of Grey and how Hirohito demanded the Japanese soldiers treat the Koreans (this book)). Obviously other stuff that I haven't thought of should also be taught.This book gives a fascinating view of daily life for a Korean girl and

This might top out my list of possible 7th grade social studies books. It's very good, and ties in with the Indiana Standards really well.I'm finding more and more YA literature that deals with Pre-WWII Japanese Imperialism. While I feel like - in general - Americans are still primarily focused with the European Theater, I'm sensing a shift with the distance that is now between us and the events.We do a colonization simulation in class, in which the students create 4 cultures. One is smaller,

When My Name was Keoko : a novel of Korea in World War IIBy Linda Sue Park 4 starsThis story is not just of Keoko a/k/a Sun-hee but also very much about her older brother, Tae-yul. Their story starts in 1940 in their village in what will be So. Korea. Sun-hee is 10 years old and her brother is 13. It starts as the Japanese have made the rule that all Koreans must take on Japanese names and it causes great pain in the Kim family. Their names have special meaning to them. Abuji (father) comes up