Brothers Keeper, Julie Lee
Brothers Keeper, Julie Lee
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Brother's Keeper

Author: Julie Lee

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/21/2020


Synopsis

With war looming on the horizon and winter setting in, can two children escape North Korea on their own? WINNER OF THE FREEMAN BOOK AWARD! North Korea. December, 1950. Twelve-year-old Sora and her family live under an iron set of rules: No travel without a permit. No criticism of the government. No absences from Communist meetings. Wear red. Hang pictures of the Great Leader. Don't trust your neighbors. Don't speak your mind. You are being watched. But war is coming, war between North and South Korea, between the Soviets and the Americans. War causes chaos—and war is the perfect time to escape. The plan is simple: Sora and her family will walk hundreds of miles to the South Korean city of Busan from their tiny mountain village. They just need to avoid napalm, frostbite, border guards, and enemy soldiers. But they can't. And when an incendiary bombing changes everything, Sora and her little brother Young will have to get to Busan on their own. Can a twelve-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother survive three hundred miles of warzone in winter? Haunting, timely, and beautiful, this harrowing novel from a searing new talent offers readers a glimpse into a vanished time and a closed nation. A Jane Addams Children's Book Award FinalistAn ILA Intermediate Fiction Award WinnerAn American Library Association Notable Children’s BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA Junior Library Guild SelectionA Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year "Will ultimately be recognized as one of the best books … on the Korean War."—Education About Asia, the Association for Asian Studies

Reviews

How this was so heartbrokenly written I get super distressed trying to cope with the whole plot until the end. I never thought that it would be this heart wrenching, so taut and haunting; from the setting to the characters itself— this would definitely be one of my best historical reads for this yea......more

Goodreads review by Josiah

Add another to the list of all-time great debuts. Brother's Keeper is a story of intense action and emotion during the Korean War, one of the least talked about military engagements of the twentieth century. Twelve-year-old Sora Pak lives with her parents and younger brothers, Youngsoo (age eight) a......more

vivid and gripping.......more