Clarion Books, 2009-01-09
Seesaw Girl
Seesaw Girl
Mou-Sien Tseng, Illustrator, Jean Tseng, Illustrator
Paperback
SKU:9780547248882
Couldn't load pickup availability
- Make Way for Books Annotation
In 17th-century Korea, a young girl named Jade dreams of a life beyond the confines of her family’s estate. Through her secretive art and a growing sense of independence, she learns that true freedom comes not from escaping tradition, but from understanding and reshaping it.
Book Details
Book Details
Readability • 5.6
Age Range • 8-12
Pages • 96
Subjects • Sex role • Korea
Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Asia • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Juvenile Fiction | Art • Juvenile Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural • Juvenile Fiction | Short Stories • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Strangers
Publisher Summary
Publisher Summary
The powerful tale of a sheltered girl's daring attempts to enlarge her world, from Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.
Jade Blossom 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. Will she ever see for herself?
A lively story with a vividly realized historical setting, Seesaw Girl "will capture and hold readers" (Kirkus).
