In the Shadow of the Sun

By: Anne Sibley O'Brien

Narrated by: Jackie Chung

Hatchet in North Korea: A sister and brother go on the run with explosive forbidden photographs in this gripping and timely survival adventure.

North Korea is known as the most repressive country on Earth, with a dictatorial leader, a starving population, and harsh punishment for rebellion.

Perfect place for a family vacation, right?

Yet that's exactly where Mia Andrews finds herself, on a tour with her aid-worker father and fractious older brother, Simon. Mia was adopted from South Korea as a baby, and the trip raises tough questions about who she really is. Then her dad is arrested for spying, just as forbidden photographs of North Korean slave-labor camps fall into Mia's hands. The only way to save Dad: get the pictures into China, over a hundred miles away. Thus Mia and Simon set off on a harrowing journey without food, money, or shelter, in a land where anyone who sees them might turn them in, and getting caught could mean prison - or worse.

Rooted in years of research and written with deep sympathy for the North Korean people, In the Shadow of the Sun is an unforgettable story of strength and survival.

©2017 Anne Sibley O'Brien (P)2017 Scholastic Inc.

Critic reviews

"Narrator Jackie Chung's delivery of the precise, stilted English of the government guides suggests Mia's sense of being an outsider. However, Chung truly sets the mood of otherworldliness in her vocalizations of the gross contradiction inherent in every aspect of North Korean life... As depicted by Chung, Mia and Simon are desperate and believable. Tension is palpable in this middle-grade thriller." (AudioFile)

I think that the describing of the car chase was the best.

I disliked the part were they were in the stadium watching the Korean traditional performance.

Great book

Best book I ever read.Veary interesting and ingadeing. Highly suggest fore teens
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“ Bibliography”

At the end of this book the author gives a fine list of interesting books about North Korea, all of which are available on Amazon. JJJJJ