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Original Title:	A Step From Heaven
ISBN:	0142500275 (ISBN13: 9780142500279)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	California(United States)
Literary Awards:	Michael L. Printz Award (2002), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2003), IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Fiction (2002), National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2001), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Children and Young Adult (2003) Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2004)

A Step from Heaven Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

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Title	:	A Step from Heaven
Author	:	An Na
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	October 13th 2003 by Speak (first published April 30th 2001)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Cultural

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When Young Ju is four years old, she learns that her family is leaving their small fishing village in Korea to live in Mi Gook. Young Ju has heard enough about Mi Gook to be sure the place they are moving to is paradise, that she and her family are going to heaven.

After flying through the sky for a long time, Young Ju finds out that Mi Gook is actually a regular earthly place called America. And it doesn't feel at all like heaven. A STEP FROM HEAVEN follows Young's life from the age of 4 all the way up until she is ready for college, as we watch her change from a hopeful girl into a hardened young adult.

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Title: A Step From HeavenAuthor: An Na I really liked how this book is easy on the eyes and the tone is soothing. The author seems like a calm person, but yet engages the reader throughout the book. It's about a young girl who moved from a place in Korea, Mi Gook, into America, starting life all over. Her father and mother were doing fine, and she soon received a brother. She was learning english and found herself a best friend. As she knew that having a best friend did not mean you had to tell

This book seems to have inspired a lot of passion from readers, both pro and con. I enjoyed it. I thought it was well-written, with a sympathetic main character and a thought-provoking look at Korean immigrant culture. It's not perfect; there are a few plot holes and there are scenes that are probably too intense for some young readers. I would recommend it, depending on maturity level, for middle school and older.

4Q 2P MJA Step From Heaven is about a Korean girl who moves to America with her parents at a young age. As a child of immigrants, Young Ju feels torn between loyalty toward her family and culture and the American way of life. Her parents work long hours in unpleasant jobs and struggle to instill traditional Korean culture into their children. The writing style is very poetic and the narrators descriptions are very emotional. The book is similar to others that I read, such as American Born

This book provides a brief glimpse into the lives of a Korean family that immigrates to the United States. Young Ju and her brother, Joon, struggle with their dominating father and passive mothers traditions that are a huge contrast to how most young people are treated in America. Young Ju eventually takes on the role of caregiver to her abused mother and uneducated father. She has no other option than to stand by and watch her father become an alcoholic, her mother an abused wife, and her



Sarah Stewart Multicultural literatureYoung Jus life is changed when her parents decide to move to America, or Mi Gook as they say in Korea, in hopes of a better life. Young Ju must leave her grandmother, her Halmoni, behind though. In America, Young Ju becomes and older sister to her brother Joon. She describes a struggle in being a girl and being the oldest sibling. Also weaved throughout the book is the abuse she and her family must endure from her father. The book, ranging from age three to

this book was very (view spoiler)[good. (hide spoiler)] i didn't think i was going to like it because it started out in the voice of (view spoiler)[a five-year-old, (hide spoiler)]which was too (view spoiler)[twee (hide spoiler)] for me, but it thankfully changed as the female child-character grows up to show the slow acclimitization and americanization of a korean family and the struggles and triumphs they undergo, while still holding on to their roots. it is actually a very graceful and