Giraffe Problems

The White Giraffe

The New Bear at School

Burying the Sun

Tua and the Elephant

Monkey Love

DFC Library: Monkey Nuts

The Other Side of Truth

The Year Of Impossible Goodbyes

* "Wonderfully telling scenes evoke the time, the place, and—more subtly—the deep-running emotions that these people, bound by customs and besieged by troubles, were so rarely free to acknowledge."—Kirkus Reviews, pointer review "Ms. Choi writes of social, political and personal hurts in a context few young Americans today have experienced. Yet she tells of more than dislocation: she tells of Sookan's personal growth, indeed her triumph."—New York TimesSookan, the unforgettable heroine of Year of Impossible Goodbyes, is now fifteen years old and a refugee in Pusan, a city in a southern province of Korea. The Korean War is raging, and she once again has been separated from her father and brothers. Anxiously awaiting any news of them, Sookan imagines a time when she can return to a normal life in Seoul. In the meantime, though she often feels sad, alone, and scared, she finds solace in a forbidden friendship and from the mysterious "shouting poet" who offers her and her fellow refugees inspiration each morning.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Giraffe Problems

Jory John, Lane Smith, 2018

The White Giraffe

Lauren St. John, 2006

The New Bear at School

Tim Warnes, Carrie Weston, 2007

Burying the Sun

Gloria Whelan, 2004

Tua and the Elephant

R.P. Harris, Taeeun Yoo, 2011

Monkey Love

Vicktoria Kraemer, 2016

DFC Library: Monkey Nuts

Robin Etherington, 2013

The Other Side of Truth

Beverley Naidoo, 2000