A sky of paper stars, Susie Yi
Type
Label
A sky of paper stars, Susie Yi
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
Pre-adolescent
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
A sky of paper stars
Nature of contents
comics graphic novels
Responsibility statement
Susie Yi
Summary
Middle schooler Yuna, born in America to Korean parents, struggles with feeling too Korean to fit in with her American peers at school. Frustrated with her fractured life and desperate to fit in, Yuna makes a wish on paper stars to return to Korea so she might feel normal somewhere. When the unexpected death of her halmoni (grandmother) makes Yuna's wish come true, Yuna is wracked with guilt and feels more fragile than ever as she realizes she also feels too American to fit in with her extended Korean family. As her family prepares to bury her halmoni, Yuna has to race the clock to fold more stars and undo her wish before her halmoni is gone forever
Target audience
pre adolescent
Creator
Subject
- Graphic novels
- Grief -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Korean American youth -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Grandmothers + Death -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Identity (Psychology) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Middle school students -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Coming-of-age comics
- Belonging (Social psychology) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Korean American families -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Wishes -- Comic books, strips, etc
Content
Author
Illustrator
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject10
- Graphic novels
- Grief -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Korean American youth -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Grandmothers + Death -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Identity (Psychology) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Middle school students -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Coming-of-age comics
- Belonging (Social psychology) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Korean American families -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Wishes -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Content2
- Author1
- Illustrator1