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Brother’s Keeper

Julie Lee

Age Level:

Middle Grade

Genre:

Historical Fiction

Published:

2020

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

Guy Delisle

Age Level:

YA, Adult

Genre:

Autobiography and Memoir, Nonfiction

Published:

2004

Kang recounts his life as a boy growing up in Pyongyang during the Sixties after his Korean family returns to North Korea from their affluent lives in Japan. After Kang’s grandfather is accused of high treason, Kang spends ten years of his life surviving in a remote labor camp or gulag. Kang was only nine years old when he was first imprisoned at the Yodok camp in 1977.

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot

Age Level:

YA

Genre:

Autobiography and Memoir

Published:

2000

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