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        HUNTER GIRL SERIES: GODDESS OF MIRROR AND THE BIRTH OF THE HUNTER GIRL

        by Hye-Jung Kim

        Have you ever heard of the Pied Piper, who kidnapped the children and vanished hundreds of years ago? A threadbare old fairy tale? What if the Pied Piper is a real person? What if he still survives until today on the power stolen from the children’s soul, targeting children for his revenge to the world? If you were the one with the power to stop him, will you stand up to your rack? On my 12th birthday, my grandma who came to see me (Kang-ji Lee, 12) for the first time in my life says that I am destined to be the Hunter Girl who will defeat the Pied Piper. So I must become a Hunter Girl, punish the bad adults with my own ability, be an expert and beat the Pied Piper. No way! But my classmates are in danger because of the ‘Mirror Goddess’ – who turns everyone beautiful and handsome. As I came to find out her creepy truth, I decided to become a Hunter Girl. From mind training, physical training, screen archery and to the Hunter Girl Test – it is a tough procedure, but I won’t give up. If I have the power, whether it is fate or hope, I will protect the children. We protect us!

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        The Wizard Bakery

        by Gu Byeong-mo

        THIS FANTASTICAL COMING-OF -AGE NOVEL follows several eventful weeks in the life of a nameless 16-year-old boy, whose mother committed suicide when he was young, and who lives in an unhappy household with his father, stepmom, and 8-year-old stepsister. For six years since the stepmother joined the family, she has slowly but definitely pushed the boy out of the familial circle. She relegates him to his room, stops doing laundry or cooking for him, and ices him out. When he was twelve, he developed a severe stutter and since then has struggled with school, bullying, and other issues, retreating and staying silent. He takes care of his meals by buying baked goods at the neighborhood bakery, Wizard Bakery, which is operated by an odd baker and a nice cashier.With an arch, darkly funny voice, this fantastical novel grapples with the choices you make in life and their consequences, the power of kind, generous strangers in changing someone’s life, and the family you are born into vs. the one you create. Slim and streamlined as it might be, this novel reveals a unique voice, one that is bold and exciting. This novel won the Changbi Young Adult Literature Award in 2009.

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        K Town Heat

        by Sonia Patel

        WHEN HA-NA DESAI, A HALF INDIAN HALF KOREAN HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, emmigrates to Los Angeles to leave behind the painful memories of being viciously bullied in her birth city of Seoul, she has to escape a dangerous online relationship that finally leaves her free of her worst enemy—her own shame and self-hate. K-TownHeato​penswithHa-naDesai,a half Indian, half Korean high school senior, immigrating to K-Town, L.A. from Seoul to leave behind the painful memories of being bullied. She’s done cutting herself to survive. She’s done hiding the battle scars. She thinks she’s done being bullied. She throws herself into creating meaningful art and working at her aunt’s Indian market. But Ha-na’s biggest bully, Yi Kyung-seok, has also moved to K-Town, and he wants to be her friend. So does the self-proclaimed “biggest butch in K-Town,” Yun Ji-su. Ha-na gives friendship a shot only to discover that it’s not so easy with an “inner bully that picked up where the kids in Seoul left off,” as her L.A. shrink says. What ​is easier is falling for a handsome stranger, Cody Lee, who DMs her on the Gram. The online relationship consumes Ha-na. But when things with Cody get indecent and dangerous, will she be able to save herself? Because the truth is, what she knows is how to endure abuse, not escape it.

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