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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)

When My Name Was Keoko Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

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Title	:	When My Name Was Keoko
Author	:	Linda Sue Park
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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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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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

I read this book because it was required for my class. However, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. It was so interesting to see World War II from the point of Korean youth. As an American, I had only heard about what happened in Germany during World War II, and it was eye-opening to see the impact that America had on the Japanese and Korean people. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys historical fiction, or anyone who is wanting to read a story from a different perspective than most

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

My novel takes place in Korea in 1940. The Korean and Japanese armies were fighting in world war 2. Japanese Empire took over Korea. Once they took over, everything changed. All the Koreans had to change their names to Japanese ones, in school students had to learn about the Japanese culture. During school, they also had to read and write only in Japanese. Even outside of schools people couldnt speak Korean, unless they we're home or in an environment, where it was safe to speak that language.

This book was amazing. There is so much history here - history that I was totally unaware of. I had no idea that Japan occupied Korea at one time and occupied in a very brutal way. This story is told simply in a dual POV of a brother and sister and their lives during the occupation of Japan and then the war with the United States. Very well done and I highly recommend this book to anyone.

Linda Sue Park expertly narrates the fictional story of her mother's experience with the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War 2. She meshes actual historical events with her own story to help the reader imagine what a typical Korean family went through while under Japanese rule. As a history teacher, this story was particularly interesting to me, since WW2 told from the Korean perspective is not something that is widely known. This part of Korean history is often discarded from history

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,