Book
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
- Published
- 1991
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Publisher
- Dell/ a Yearling Book
- Pages
- 169
- Words
- 45897
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165149.Year_of_Impossible_Goodbyes?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_27
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.6
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 840L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 9–14
It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to the family, but he cannot break their spirit. Sookan's father is with the resistance movement in Manchuria and her older brothers have been sent away to labor camps. Her mother is forced to supervise a sock factory and Sookan herself must wear a uniform and attend a Japanese school.
Collections
Beautiful Feet · MAW58 — Modern American and World History
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780440824688
- ISBN-10
- 0440824680
Tags
Beautiful FeetFamily LifeKoreaSchoolWarWork