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      • The blurb: Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains.
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  2. Overview. Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea is a 2016 memoir by Sungju Lee and Susan McClelland. This first-person narrative nonfiction work recounts author Sungju Lee’s childhood in North Korea, surviving on the streets as a young boy after he was abandoned by his parents, as well as his harrowing ...

  3. Sep 13, 2016 · Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his “brothers”; to be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.

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  4. Title: Every falling star : how I survived and escaped North Korea / by Sungju Lee and Susan Elizabeth McClelland. Description: New York : Amulet Books, 2016.

  5. Sep 8, 2016 · Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself.

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  7. Sep 16, 2016 · EVERY FALLING STAR, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself.

  8. The boys move around the countryside stealing, fighting, and evading the police. One of the most disturbing parts of Lee’s story involves the gang’s time in the local guhoso, a prison for homeless youth that is harder to survive than living on the street.

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