Every falling star

Description:

Every Falling Star, the 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. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.

subjects: Street children,  Family,  Survival,  Boys,  Homeless boys,  Social conditions,  Childhood and youth,  Biography,  History,  Boys, juvenile literature,  Korea (north),  Korea, juvenile literature,  Outdoor life, juvenile literature

People: Sungju Lee

Places: Korea (North)

Times: 1994-2011