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The House Before Falling into the Sea
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A child and her family take in refugees during the Korean War in this poignant picture book about courage and what it really means to care for your neighbors.Every day, more and more people fleeing war in the north show up at Kyung Tak and her familys house on the southeastern shore of Korea. With nowhere else to go, the Taks home is these migrants last chance of refuge before falling into the sea, and the household quickly becomes crowded, hot, and noisy. Then war sirens cry out over Kyungs city too, and her family and their guests take shelter underground. When the sirens stop, Kyung is upsetshe wishes everything could go back to the way it was before: before the sirens, before strangers started coming into their home. But after an important talk with her parents, her new friend Sunhee, and Sunhees father, Kyung realizes something important: Were stronger when we have each other, and the kindness we show one another in the darkest of times is a gift well never regret.
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