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Tackle-shop owner spans generation of anglers

In Communist China in 1966, eight-year-old Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his best friend, by trying to get a caged wild bird to sing, and through the music he is learning to play on a bamboo flute. Includes author's notes…

Pen drawings and haiku-like comments about life, kept by the author from grade school days to college years.

Kyung Soon is the youngest daughter of a Korean famly. In her daily struggles to help her family survive the war's devastation, she is encouraged by her mother's wisdom and insight. When her mother dies, Kyung Soon contiues valiantly to protect her…

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