When my name was Keoko

Linda Sue Park First published 2002

About this book

With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.

Subjects

  • children's fiction
  • courage
  • courage, fiction
  • families
  • family
  • family, fiction
  • family life
  • family life, fiction
  • fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • korea, fiction
  • korean language materials
  • loyalty, fiction
  • military occupation
  • patriotism
  • underground movements
  • world war, 1939-1945
  • world war, 1939-1945, fiction