Linda Sue Park's parents immigrated to the United States in the 1950s, for their education. Linda Sue Park was born on March 25, 1960, in Urbana, Illinois, and was raised outside Chicago. She has written the ninth book in The 39 Clues, Storm Warning, published on May 25, 2010. Park's work achieved prominence when she received the prestigious 2002 Newbery Medal for her novel A Single Shard. She has written six children's novels and five picture books. Linda Sue Park (born March 25, 1960) is a Korean-American author who published her first novel, Seesaw Girl, in 1999. (Mar.Linda Sue Park at the 2014 Texas Book Festival. Readers will come away with an appreciation of this period of history and likely a greater interest in learning more about it. But, in the end, telling details provide a clear picture of Sun-hee and Tae-yul and their world. The son comes to an understanding of his father rather abruptly at the novel's close, and some readers may wonder why Tae-yul was not labeled a chin-il-pa
As the war intensifies, each family member asserts his or her individuality, from Sun-hee, who continues to keep a journal after a soldier calls it "a crime against our Divine Emperor," to her uncle, who prints a revolutionary newspaper in hiding, to Tae-yul, who joins the Japanese army to avoid helping the military police capture his uncle-only to be chosen as a kamikaze pilot.
Through the use of the shifting narrators, Park subtly points up the differences between male and female roles in Korean society and the father's process of choosing the family's Japanese name speaks volumes about his strength and intelligence. The Japanese government forbids the Korean language to be spoken and the country's flag to be flown, and even forces Korean families like Tae-yul and Sun-hee's to change their names (Sun-hee becomes Keoko). A brother and sister alternate as narrators in Newbery Medalist Park's ( A Single Shard) well-constructed novel, which takes place from 1940–1945 in Japanese-occupied Korea.
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