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 * **__//Year of Impossible GoodbyesBy Sook Nyul Choi  //__**[[image:http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/book/cabinet/jan_9780395/9780395574195.jpg width="131" height="200" align="center"]] || **//__Word Wall__//**

1945 Japanese Korean Russia Freedom Love Family

__Secrets__

Fear Strength

Faith ||
 * Links [|Korean War]

[|The Forgotten War]

[|Pyongyang]

[|South Korea during the War] || ~Bibliography~ "The Forgotten War." //Thinkquest//. Web. 12 May 2010. []

"Korean War." //Infoplease//. Web. 12 May 2010. [|http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/korea.htm]

"Korean War 1950–53." //Australian War Memorial//. Australian War Memorial, n.d. Web. 12 May 2010. []  "Pyongyang." __World Encyclopedia__. 2005. Retrieved May 12, 2010 from Encyclopedia.com: [] ||
 * I think Sookan and Amy from Heartland wold be good friends.

In the begining of the series, Amy is under pressure from growing with no mom and only a sick grandpa and a bossy older sister. Her mom'a horse rescue farm is gonig under from lack of bussiness and her sister, Lou, wants to shut it down or make it into a preppy riding school like the one down the road.

Sookan has to deal with a sick grandpa and the pressure from the Japanese then the Russian.

I think if they were to meet (I don't know how. Amy is American and Sookan is Korean) then they could help each other with the pressure and dealing with grief/death. || Evaluation This book, Year of Impossible Goodbyes, is a really good book for teens. It's about the Korean War and what kids had to go through back then. It's historical fiction and people can connect with Sookan (narrator) if they have ever felt that their life was in someone else's hands and felt liek they had no say in their life. Since it was in 1st person, you could feel everything like her disappointment and her excitement.

All in all, this was a very good book. ||