Full Product Details
Author: Paula Yoo ,
Dom Lee ,
Claudia Oemer
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Imprint: Lee & Low Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.10cm
, Height: 0.60cm
, Length: 20.90cm
Weight: 0.163kg
ISBN: 9781643797601
ISBN 10: 1643797603
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 07 October 2025
Recommended Age: From 13 to 17 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: Spanish
Reviews
""Includes additional sections on Korean immigration to the U.S., Asians in California, and Olympic diving.... Better designed to attract and inform middle-grade readers. These well-crafted, insightful biographies provide a useful historical context for each person's story."" -- Booklist ""Blending the inspiring story of Olympic diver Sammy Lee with the history of Asian Americans in the United States and diving as an Olympic sport, Yoo packs much into a slim volume.... Yoo's prose is ideal for middle graders, providing an ideal amount of information to attract and hold their attention. The unique and evocative art, created with a combination of painting and scratching details in encaustic wax, elevates the text."" -- School Library Journal Delaware Diamonds Awards - Diamond State Literacy Association
Author Information
Paula Yoo is an author and screenwriter whose children's books for Lee & Low include Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds, Shining Star, and several titles in the Confetti Kids series. Her titles have been recognized by the International Literacy Association, the Texas Bluebonnet Award Masterlist, and Lee & Low's New Voices Award. She and her husband live in Los Angeles, California, where she works in television. You can visit her online at paulayoo.com. Dom Lee made his picture-book debut with Baseball Saved Us. He grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and went on to illustrate books in both the United States and Korea. His titles for Lee & Low include Passage to Freedom and Heroes, as well as the award-winning Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds. Lee's unique illustration style involves applying encaustic beeswax on paper, then scratching out images, and finally coloring the images with oil paint. Lee and his wife live in Hollis, New York. Claudia Oemer is a German Ecuadorian translator based in Quito. She has worked in translation for more than a decade in the academic, literary, and business realms. She is trilingual and translates English, German, and Spanish works. Her translated books with Lee & Low include Rosas para Isabella and La historia del clavadista olímpico Sammy Lee.
