Frances Park

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1998
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Book List in Order: 10 titles

  • My Freedom Trip

    This deeply moving story of a child's escape in the dark of night from North Korea to South Korea is based on memories of the author's mother. Just prior to the outbreak of the Korean War, young Soo secretly crosses the 38th parallel, hoping to join ...

  • The Royal Bee

    Based on a true story, The Royal Bee is an elegantly written tale that pays tribute to a young boy's courage and strength of character. Song-ho is a young Korean boy destined by birth to a life of poverty. Barred from going to school--only the sons o...

  • To Swim Across the World

    Korea, 1941, for Sei-Young Shin, a young man born into a poor family in the rural south, it is a time of oppression. The Japanese have issued strict provisions against the Korean language, religion, and food, and Sei-Young is learning important lesso...

  • When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon

    An enchanting and very moving novel about the bond between two sisters growing up first generation Korean-American is now in paperback. Cleo was everything her little sister Marcy wanted to be: beautiful, alluring, and fiercely independent. But when ...

  • Where on Earth Is My Bagel

  • Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong

    A beautiful picture book with a reassuring message and multicultural appeal. Jangmi, a young Korean girl, can't bear the thought of leaving her home at 382 Shin Dang Dong and moving to America. This sensitive story follows Jangmi as she gradually adj...

  • The Have a Good Day Cafe

    Early each morning Mike and his family drive to the city with their food cart. They sell bagels and orange juice for breakfast, hot dogs and pizza for lunch. Mike passes the time by drawing pictures, and Grandma sits in the shade, fanning herself and...

  • Where on Earth is My Bagel?

    No one knows how the idea of a New York bagel popped into Yum Yung's head -- perhaps it was inspired by a dream, or by listening to sparrows' songs. Yum Yung lives in Korea where there are no New York bagels, and one day he just knows he has to have ...

  • The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon

    The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon is an emotionally charged, cautionary tale about alienation and the spiritual deformity that ensues when it feels like the whole world hates you. In the summer of '76, with no other Koreans in Glover, Virginia,...



  • Blue Rice

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frances Park has published 10 books.

Frances Park does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blue Rice, was published in June 2024.

The first book by Frances Park, My Freedom Trip, was published in November 1998.

No. Frances Park does not write books in series.
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