A sky of paper stars / Susie Yi.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Roaring Brook Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 225 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250843890
- 1250843898
- 9781250843883
- 125084388X
- Korean American youth -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
- Middle school students -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
- Intergenerational relations -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
- Korean American families -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Graphic Novel | SKY OF PAPER ST | Available | 33111011086010 | |||||
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Main Library | Children's Graphic Novel | New | SKY OF PAPER ST | Checked out | 05/19/2024 | 33111011185010 | |||
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Children's Book
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Northport Library | Children's Graphic Novel | SKY OF PAPER ST | Available | 33111011135346 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Sky of Paper Stars is a heartrending middle-grade graphic novel by Susie Yi about a girl's ill-fated wish to fit in, perfect for readers of Stargazing and Pashmina.
All Yuna wants is to belong. She wants to go to sleepovers, have a smart phone, and go to summer camp--just like her friends in middle school.
Furious at her Umma for never packing her a "normal" American lunch, they get into yet another fight. Out of options and miserable, Yuna remembers a legend that her grandma, Halmoni, told her. If you fold 1,000 paper stars, you will be granted one wish.
When she reaches 1,000 paper stars, Yuna wishes for her family to move back to Korea, where she can finally be normal. Seconds later: a knock at her door. It's her sister with devastating news. Halmoni has died and they must go back to Korea to attend the funeral.
Yuna knows this is all her fault. As her guilt builds, her body begins to turn into paper. Yuna realizes she must undo her wish and bring her Halmoni back--or turn into paper forever.
Wholly heartbreaking and with light touches of magic realism, A Sky of Paper Stars is a captivating graphic novel about identity, family, and the love that can bridge generations.
Middle schooler Yuna, born in America to Korean parents, struggles with feeling too Korean to fit in with her American peers at school. Frustrated with her fractured life and desperate to fit in, Yuna makes a wish on paper stars to return to Korea so she might feel normal somewhere. When the unexpected death of her halmoni (grandmother) makes Yuna's wish come true, Yuna is wracked with guilt and feels more fragile than ever as she realizes she also feels too American to fit in with her extended Korean family. As her family prepares to bury her halmoni, Yuna has to race the clock to fold more stars and undo her wish before her halmoni is gone forever.