Gathering of Pearls

by Sook Nyul Choi

Book Overview

"It is easy to fall in love with this gentle girl. . . . Readers who share in this emotional journey with Sookan will grow along with her in wisdom."--School Library Journal "Just as oysters make... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395674379
• ISBN13: 9780395674376
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

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The plot is that the main character, sunken must go to an american college to get a better education. She is so busy with her school work that she has not enough time to wrtite the letters to her family. She is really sad when she finds out her dad died in a battle in the war. She is still sad and gets I n trouble for smoking in a non smoking zond. her sister is mad at her because she is so busy with her school work that she is not writing to home like she is supposed to. She isn't so sad about her dad's death when she hears that he mom is really sick and had to be in the hospital. i like the book because it was about a girls form a different county struggling with an American collage while her dad is fighting in the war and her mom, brother and sister are still at home. I didn't like it because the lengths of the chapters kept changing.

I've read a lot of books and this one is good

I don't like to write reviews, usually, but I'm breaking the rule because this is such a great trilogy and deserves its five stars, not its two or three from .... These books have depth and the author writes above average and a true book of fiction will ferret you out of your world and into theirs and this one does enjoyably.

Gathering of Pearls

I rated this book four stars because it was a good book and kept my interest, but it wasn't my favorite book ever. I really enjoyed Gathering of Pearls because it was about a girl in college, and it helped me to see what college will be like. Recently, I've been looking up some information on the Internet about the college that I'm planning to go to. I also am thinking about which dorm I want to live in, and all of its fees. This book held my interest well because it told me more about the hardships of college life and what college life is like. It also told me what dorms are like. There aren't really any other books that I know of that are similar to this one in any way, but I'm overall interested in Fiction and Fantasy books. I was surprised that I enjoyed this book as much as I did since it was more real-life than anything. This book is a sequel to Year of impossible Goodbyes and Echoes of the White Giraffe. Year of Impossible Goodbyes won a Judy Lopez Award and was chosen as an American Library Association Notable Book and Best Book for Young Adults. The author of these books, Sook Nyul Choi, also made a picture book titled Halmoni and the Picnic. This book is mainly about a girl named Sookan who is a foreign exchange student from Korea. She goes to a college in New York City, and finds out how different life in the United States is from Korean life. Sookan struggles with an internal and external conflict. She doesn't know if she should act Korean and keep Korea's ways or give up all of that and act like Americans. She is afraid that of she becomes to American-like her family will be dissatisfied with how she has become. Sookan finds that she is becoming more American-like and scolds herself for not following the Korean ways enough. Her external conflict is that she overworks herself with all of her subjects and gets a serious lack of sleep since she studies so much. She would stay up many hours into the night and study, sleep a few hours, and wake up early to study more. It's very interesting how she fights through all of her difficulties, so I would definitely recommend this book to teenagers interested in college and/or becoming a foreign exchange student in the future.