Seesaw Girl |
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Author:
| Park, Linda Sue |
Illustrator:
| Tseng, Jean Tseng, Mou-Sien |
ISBN: | 978-0-395-91514-1 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1999 |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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Jade never ventures beyond the walls of her family's Inner Court; in seventeenth-century Korea, a girl of good family does not leave home until she marries. She is enthralled by her older brother's stories about trips to the market and to the ancestral grave sites in the mountains, about reading and painting, about his conversations with their father about business and politics and adventures only boys can have. Jade accepts her destiny, and yet she is endlessly curious about what...
More DescriptionJade never ventures beyond the walls of her family's Inner Court; in seventeenth-century Korea, a girl of good family does not leave home until she marries. She is enthralled by her older brother's stories about trips to the market and to the ancestral grave sites in the mountains, about reading and painting, about his conversations with their father about business and politics and adventures only boys can have. Jade accepts her destiny, and yet she is endlessly curious about what lies beyond the walls. A lively story with a vividly realized historical setting, "Seesaw Girl" recounts Jade Blossom's daring attempts to enlarge her world.