Sook Nyul Choi
Bibliography

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The Best Older Sister. Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. New York: Delacorte, 1997.
Sunhi is unsettled by the arrival of a baby brother, but with the help of her wise grandmother she learns to appreciate her new role of big sister. Korean Americans -- Fiction

Echoes of the White Giraffe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

Sequel to: Year of Impossible Goodbyes. Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul. Korea -- Fiction

Gathering of Pearls. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Sookan struggles to balance her new life as a college freshman in the United States with expectations from her family at home in Korea.

Halmoni and the Picnic. Illustrated by Karen M. Dugan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

A Korean American girl's third grade class helps her newly arrived grandmother feel more comfortable with her new life in the United States.

Year of Impossible Goodbyes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.

Yunmi and Halmoni's Trip. Illustrated by Karen Duga. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

When she goes to Korea with her grandmother, Yunmi looks forward to visiting relatives she has never seen, but she also worries about whether Halmoni will want to return to New York.

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