Finding My Voice
  • Published: 1 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9781641291972
  • Imprint: Soho Teen
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $45.00

Finding My Voice

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15 Feb 2022
Hardback
1 Mar 2021
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THE GROUNDBREAKING #OWNVOICES CLASSIC BY CELEBRATED KOREAN AMERICAN AUTHOR MARIE MYONG-OK LEE

The groundbreaking Own Voices YA classic from Korean-American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee, reissued with a new foreword from Wicked Fox author Kat Cho.

Seventeen-year-old Ellen Sung just wants to be like everyone else at her all-white school. But hers is the only Korean American family in town, and her classmates in Arkin, Minnesota, will never let her forget that she’s different. At the start of senior year, Ellen finds herself falling for Tomper Sandel, a football player who is popular and blond and undeniably cute . . . and to her surprise, he falls for her, too. Now Ellen has a chance at a life she never imagined, one that defies the expectations of both her core friend group and her strict parents. But even as she stands up to racism at school and disapproval at home, all while pursuing a romance with Tomper, Ellen discovers that her greatest challenge is one she never expected: finding the courage to speak up and raise her voice.
  • Published: 1 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9781641291972
  • Imprint: Soho Teen
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for Finding My Voice

"A quintessential teen book about trying to navigate high school and find some semblance of belonging . . . I am so happy that Finding My Voice is finding new life for a whole new generation of readers."
--Kat Cho, author of Wicked Fox (from the Foreword)

Praise for Finding My Voice   A Friends of American Writers Best Book   An ALA Best Book for Reluctant Readers An International Reading Association Children’s Choice “A quintessential teen book about trying to navigate high school and find some semblance of belonging . . . I am so happy that Finding My Voice is finding new life for a whole new generation of readers.” —Kat Cho, author of Wicked Fox (from the Foreword)   “Honestly rendered, and never didactic, the story allows readers first to flinch in recognition and then to look into their own hearts.” —Kirkus Reviews Praise for Marie Myung-Ok Lee “That rare book, that rare page-turner, the one you cannot put down, the one you will suspend washing the laundry for or cooking breakfast for. It is the novel you will open and read in one urgent breath as you take in the storyteller’s compelling tale of lives felt long after the book’s end as you turn off the light to sleep.” —Lois-Ann Yamanaka, author of Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers