Every falling star: the true story of how I survived and escaped North Korea
Biography
Summary
This first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive,… Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his "brothers"; to be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.
Title Details
ISBN
9781515910107
Publisher
Recorded Books
Copyright Date
2016
Book number
2392617
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
David Shih
Duration
9 hours 24 minutes 27 seconds
Audio producer
Tantor Audio, [a division of] Recorded Books, [2016].