Jackie Chung
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Welcome to the most isolated country on earth. Mia Andrews doesn't know much about North Korea. She's heard only that a dictator controls everything, lots of people don't have enough to eat, and many more are forced to work in harsh labor camps. Not the best place for a family vacation. Yet that's exactly where Mia finds herself, on a tour of North Korea with her aid-worker father and surly older brother, Simon. Then, out of nowhere, Dad is arrested...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Instead of going to prom, seventeen-year-old Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center, and she is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend--who is now a K-pop superstar--returns to make good on their old pact to go to prom together.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"This debut novel by the award-winning writer Yiyun Li is set in China in the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement, an anti-Communist groundswell designed to move China beyond the dark shadow of the Cultural Revolution toward a more enlightened and open society. In this story, we follow a group of people in a small town during this dramatic and harrowing time, the era that was a forebear of the Tiananmen Square uprising."...