Copyright Date:
2017
Edition Date:
2017
Pages:
336
Availability:
Available
New Title:
Yes
ISBN:
Publisher: 0-545-90574-5 Perma-Bound: 0-7804-1364-4
ISBN 13:
Publisher: 978-0-545-90574-9 Perma-Bound: 978-0-7804-1364-1
Dewey:
Fic
Language:
English
Reviewing Agencies:
ALA Booklist
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal
Voice of Youth Advocates
Word Count:
83,892
Reading Level:
5.1
Interest Level:
3-6
Accelerated Reader:
reading level: 5.1
/ points: 13.0
/ quiz: 189249
/ grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!:
reading level:4.3 /
points:17.0 /
quiz:Q70912
North Korea is known as the most repressive country on Earth, with a dictatorial leader, a starving population, and harsh punishment for rebellion.
Not the best place for a family vacation.
Yet that's exactly where Mia Andrews finds herself, on a tour with her aid-worker father and fractious older brother, Simon. Mia was adopted from South Korea as a baby, and the trip raises tough questions about where she really belongs. Then her dad is arrested for spying, just as forbidden photographs of North Korean slave-labor camps fall into Mia's hands. The only way to save Dad: get the pictures out of the country. Thus Mia and Simon set off on a harrowing journey to the border, without food, money, or shelter, in a land where anyone who sees them might turn them in, and getting caught could mean prison -- or worse.
An exciting adventure that offers a rare glimpse into a compelling, complicated nation, In the Shadow of the Sun is an unforgettable novel of courage and survival.