Linda Sue Park

With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely

When Raffa makes a cure from a rare crimson vine he finds deep in the forbidden forest, the bat he saves transforms into something much more.

Amy and Dan learn the truth about the Madrigals and Grace Cahill's alternate will, and discover leads to a revelation of a secret about their family and a showdown with the Man in Black

Returned by a surprising twist to their first mission on U.S. soil since the beginning of the Clue hunt, Amy and Dan discover evidence of a mole in their organization who proves to be one of their closest confidantes and who reveals, even more disturbingly, the true agenda of the Vespers.

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven

Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hanna, in a small town in America's heartland, in 1880. Hanna's adjustment to her new surroundings, which primarily means negotiating the townspeople's almost...

A celebration of the joy that books and reading bring to children, anywhere, anytime.

When her little sister, Akeer, becomes sick when they are returning home from the water hole, Nya must carry her and the water back to their village, one step at a time.

A child, eager for a favorite meal, helps with the shopping, food preparation, and table setting. Includes recipe

Gondra, a little dragon, celebrates her uniqueness while talking with her parents about differences between her father's homeland in the East, and her mother's in the West.