Reading guide bookmarks - Plymouth School District

Sea Bubble
All this weight
Learning how to be brave
“That is my courageous girl.”
Bottles that get left of the street
Hiding
“Breaking”
Only God Can
Mi Gook
Hair
Young Ju’s concept of Heaven
Give Apa his spanking
Young Ju’s prayer
Why Mi Gook is a magic word
Ju Mi’s reaction
“Forever”
Uhmma’s singing
you can grow up to be anything
you want
Uhmma’s explanation for going to
Mi Gook
Big ugly toy man hair
Waiting for Heaven
Mi Gook is only for young people
to have a new start
Maybe God is a big liar
Halmoni is coming to Mi Gook!
. . . waiting for you in your dreams
A Step from Heaven
My Future
Not Forever
Carpet and wood doors
Samchun – daytime, sun-isshining,
sky-color eyes
“Why does Harabugi live here”
Always dreaming when she should
be listening
The hurting drink
old witch who ate bad children for
dinner
color sticks
“Go-do-feesh”
“I cannot provide you with
enough”
“What was so bad about that
life”
ABCDEFG
Park Joon Ho
Blue spot
Wiggly worm
“Women can do almost anything
men can do”
Burying Lies (grade 2)
“My brother. He die.”
Warm fuzzies
I cover my lies with dirt
Maybe even better than first son
Being Older (grade 3)
Balloon and elephant
Tree that stretches to heaven
Young Ju’s “gift” to Joon
Disappearing Bubbles (grade 4)
“going”
Speak Korean at home
Like we bought it yesterday
“He is doing his own work.”
“embarrassing” the family

The Blob
Apa becomes the blob
That is when we can finally put our
arms around him
Rainy Day surprises
Strong is a Man
Waiting in the car
Young Ju’s visit to the kitchen
“This was a different Uhmma.”
Whining like a girl
Look blank as if you are listening . .
. trying to fly away from your body
“This is my son and he will not
grow up weak”
“I must talk like a man and fight
like a man if I want to make my
future.”
“That’s my flag!”
Harry
Nothing would happen the way
we wanted
The baby bird
We tried to walk as if we belonged
there
“God hasn’t done anything that I
should have to thank him for”
“It never happens the way we
want.”
One Hundred Pennies
Making Sure
“You were born to the wrong
family”
Uhmma’s pennies
What Uhmma/Young Ju would do
if they won the lottery
“Eat your dinner politely”
“Stupid waste”
A dollar for afternoon dreams is
expensive and cheap
Reaching
Young Ju’s dream
The phone call
Memories of Halmoni in puzzle
pieces
“What kind of son am I”
Abandoned child
My Best is Not Always Enough
The “crashing”
“Strangling me to death with your
hopes”
The checkbook
The Power of Prayer
Grace Church
Sunday school with Mr. Shin
Going to the beach
“I feel like I can take in a full
breath of air.”
Apa’s confusion
Green card
“make sure”

Becoming too American
Punishment
Daughter
Stereotype of American girls
FRIENDS FOREVER
Borrowed lunch money
Where Uhmma drops off Young Ju
Where the Doyles drop off Young
Ju
“Why do you need the car”
“. . . until you know how to be a
Korean girl again.”
“an embarrassment”
Apa’s offense
The award ceremony
“I have too much homework”
Young Ju’s award – “Yungpark”
Sobriety check
“Do you think we should send him
a gift”
“What kind of parents do you
have”
Ammonia and bleach
Revealing Forms
Patches
Disclosure
The odd smell
“Inconveniencing” Mrs. Song
Dark splotches of blue and purple
“In America, women have choices”
“You must have grown when I was
not looking.”
“Joon Park”
More like Apa
Bloodshot eyes, drooping eyelids
“You squealing little pig”
Patching the hole
“I was studying at the library.”
How young Ju copes with Apa’s
physical abuse
“She is just like you.”
911
Seeds of Life
Blue sedan
“This is all your fault.”
Rinsing the evening rice
Han Gook
“I blamed you for my mistake.”
A Family of Dreamers
Patch of grass
Never learned to read or write
Korean
Uhmma’s pictures
“Air of wealth”
“It was your Apa.”
“So you can remember how to be
brave.”
Epilogue: Hands
Uhmma’s hands rarely rested
Reading stories in the lines of
palms
Lullaby of dreams
The hands of dreams come true
“These are my hands.”