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![]() ![]() The Koreans underwent tough and painful times under the Japanese rule. At one point, the narrator’s father takes the young boy to the cemetery so that they can ask the ancestors to forgive them for humiliation- the dropping of the ancestral names (Kim, 6). They must be angry that the colonizers are stealing their cultural identity. They have a feeling that the ancestors must be angry about the change of names. This is something that does not go well with the Korean people. ![]() Instead, they took up new Japanese names. The Koreans were forced to renounce their names. Their only option is to subject to their masters. The Koreans are confused about the new set of practices the Japanese authorities subject them to. Korean echoes the boy’s worries about the changes he sees at school. In Richard Kim’s, Lost Name, the boy wonders whether the emperor even knows that the children are bowing for him. At school, the boy learns this routine of bowing down, facing Tokyo, where the emperor is supposed to be (Kim, 45). ![]() The Japanese imposed practices such as bowing of heads to acknowledge authority of the Japanese emperor. ![]() All over a sudden, it was as if a new culture, a culture they were alien to, was being imposed on them. By giving them new names, the Koreans literally lost their identity. Richard Kim’s Lost NameJapan’s colonization of Korea resulted in the transformation of their culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her crazy antics - like wearing a girdle to school! - will leave readers laughing. POPULAR: VINTAGE WISDOM FOR A MODERN GEEK has a fun premise, and sweet, smart, sensitive Maya is a girl lots of tween and teen readers can relate to. This book could provoke some great conversations about what it means to be popular. Drug-sniffing dogs come into her classroom. Her school goes into lockdown when an armed robber's loose in the neighborhood. There's a photo of smoke from a gun battle across the border in Mexico. Pregnant girls get in a fistfight at school. Another boy tickles Maya even after she tells him not to, and a teacher encourages her to report him. A boy on the autism spectrum tells Maya she's beautiful every time she sees him a teacher tells her to let her know if it ever makes her feel uncomfortable. Maya also reveals what her mother has taught her about tampons. Maya's teacher uses some pretty frank words about body parts and STDs when it comes time for sex education. Parents need to know that Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek is a memoir written by a middle school girl who, as an experiment, uses a 1950s guide to popularity to see if it can help her rise above the rank of “Social Outcast.” (That guidebook, Betty Cornell’s Teen-Age Popularity Guide, has been reprinted by Dutton and released in conjunction with Popular.) There's some talk of crushes and some dating. ![]() ![]() Probing his private life, he explores his fraught relationship with his crusty mother, his youthful infatuation with the married Sally Fairfax, and his often conflicted feelings toward his adopted children and grandchildren. Chernow brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. A strapping six feet, Washington was a celebrated horseman, elegant dancer, and tireless hunter, with a fiercely guarded emotional life. ![]() In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow dashes forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man. A laconic man of granite self-control, he often arouses more respect than affection. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president.ĭespite the reverence his name inspires, Washington remains a lifeless waxwork for many Americans, worthy but dull. In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington. ![]() |