by Linda Sue Park · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780547534268
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«A Single Shard» is the historical young adult novel by Linda Sue Park, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in paperback (176 pages, in English).
In twelfth-century Korea, Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan living under a bridge in the pottery village of Ch'ulp'o, dreams of learning the art of celadon ceramics. After breaking a piece, he enters the service of Master Min and ends up undertaking a risky journey to present his master's work to the royal court.
The work won the Newbery Medal, according to the cover; this edition is a reprint published in 2011.
Recommended for readers aged 9 to 12, interested in Korean history and in stories of learning and overcoming.
Linda Sue Park is a Korean-American author who published her first novel, Seesaw Girl, in 1999. She has written six children's novels and five picture books. Park's work achieved prominence when she received the prestigious 2002 Newbery Medal for her novel A Single Shard. She has written the ninth book in The 39 Clues, Storm Warning, published on May 25, 2010.
