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Soma's mother, T.M. Song, was a storyteller and this is a tale she used to tell her daughters when they were little girls. Her mother had told it to her when she was growing up in a rural village in Korea during the reign of King Kojong... The underlying lesson is filial piety, respect for one's parents, presented in an engrossing Oriental Cinderella story...

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A tour de force from acclaimed author Alan Gratz, this timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers, but there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end.