Folktales
Tales of a Korean Grandmother
Frances Carpenter
1991 Charles E. Tuttle Company
Available from Shen's
ISBN# 0-8048-1043-5
Thirty-two of these richly imaginative Korean folktales, each an enchanting
mixture of fact, fancy, and genuine folklore, are told against the background
of the Kim family.
Games
Korean Games With Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and
Japan
Stewart Culin
1991 Dover Publications, Inc.
Available from Dover Publications, Inc.
ISBN# 0-486-26593-5
This work was first published in 1895 by Stewart Culin who was Curator
of the Department of Ethnology at The Brooklyn Museum and an expert on games
of the world. This text provides a detailed description of over 100 Korean
games with historical notes and descriptions of their analogues in Chinese
and Japanese cultures.
Identity
If It Hadn't Been For Yoon Jun
Marie Lee
1993 Houghton Mifflin
ISBN# 0-395-62941-1
Alice Larsen is a Korean teenager adopted and raised by American parents
who has trouble coming to terms with the new Korean boy, Yoon Jun, at her
Junior High School.
Stella: On the Edge of Popularity
Lauren Lee
1994 Polychrome Books
Available from Shen's
ISBN# 1-979965-08-9
Hoping to be accepted by a popular seventh grade clique, a Korean-American
girl is embarrassed by her family's heritage until a series of events gives
her a better sense of who she is.
Immigration
From the Land of Morning Calm: The Koreans in America
Ronald Takaki
1994 Chelsea House Publishers
Available from Shen's
ISBN# 0-7910-2181-5
Beginning with the 1965 Immigration Act, a second wave of Koreans came
to America, contributing to the making of an increasingly diverse multicultural
society.
Gathering of Pearls
Sook Choi
1994 Houghton Mifflin Company
Available from Shen's
ISBN# 0-395-67437-9
Sookan struggles to balance her new life as a college freshman in the
United States with expectations from her family at home in Korea.
If It Hadn't Been For Yoon Jun
Marie Lee
1993 Houghton Mifflin
ISBN# 0-395-62941-1
Alice Larsen is a Korean teenager adopted and raised by American parents
who has trouble coming to terms with the new Korean boy, Yoon Jun, at her
Junior High School.
Korean Americans, The
(The Immigrant Experience)
Brian Lehrer
1996 Chelsea House
Available from Shen's
ISBN# 0-7910-3352
This text examines the history of the immigration of Koreans to the United
States and their life as Korean-Americans. Richly illustrated with photographs.
Koreans in America, The
Wayne Patterson
1977 Lerner Publications Company
Available from Shen's
ISBN# 0-8225-0230-5
Surveys the immigration of Koreans to America from 1903 to the present
time and identifies the contributions of individual Koreans to American
life and culture.
People and
Culture of Korea
Land and People of Korea, The
Sammy Solberg
1991 Harper Collins Publishers
Available from Shen's
ISBN# 0-397-32330-1
An introduction to the history, government, traditions, and way of life
of the people of Korea.
South Korea in Pictures
(Visual Geography Series)
1991 Lerner Publications Company
ISBN# 0-8225-1868-6
Describes the geography, history, government, people, and economy of South
Korea.
Refugees
Echoes of the White Giraffe
Sook Nyul Choi
1993 Houghton Mifflin Company
Available from Shen's
ISBN# 0-395-64721-5
Set in the 1940s in Korea, fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in
a refugee village but continues to hope that the civil war will end and
her family will be reunited in Seoul.
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Nyul Choi
1991 Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN# 0-395-57419-6
A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation
of North Korea during the 1940s and later escapes to freedom in South Korea.
World War
II
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Nyul Choi
1991 Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN# 0-395-57419-6
A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation
of North Korea during the 1940s and later escapes to freedom in South Korea. | 
