Somebody's Daughter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807083895)

A heartwarming and heartbreaking* story of a Korean American girl's search for her roots

Somebody's Daughter is the story of nineteen-year-old Sarah Thorson, who was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple in the Midwest. After dropping out of college, she decides to study in Korea and becomes more and more intrigued by her Korean heritage, eventually embarking on a crusade to find her birth mother. Paralleling Sarah's story is that of Kyung-sook, who was forced by difficult circumstances to let her baby be swept away from her immediately after birth, but who has always longed for her lost child.

Author: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
ISBN-10: 0807083895
ISBN-13: 9780807083895
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2006
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 7.91h x 5.45w x 0.64d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 102562 / Somebody's Daughter


Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2006 pg. 1 - Outstanding

About the Author
Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of three young adult novels, including Finding My Voice and Saying Goodbye, has received many honors for her writing, among them an O. Henry honorable mention, and both Best Book for Young Adults and Best Book for Reluctant Readers citations from the American Library Association. She is currently a visiting scholar at her alma mater, Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.