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The Firekeeper's Son

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The Firekeeper's Son

By Linda Sue Park
Illustrated by Julie Downing
2004, 37 pages, hardback.

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Sang-hee knows why his father climbs a mountain each evening and lights a fire. It's a signal to the firekeeper on the next mountain to light his fire, and so on - from one mountaintop to the next, all the way to the king's palace. When the king sees a fire on the nearest peak, he knows all is well in the land.

If there's no fire, that means there is trouble, and the king will send soldiers - tall, brave soldiers with shining swords. Sang-hee knows that the fire is important, but he wishes he could see the king's soldiers . . . just once.

Set in Korea in the early 1800s, this story of a young boy's moment of decision is gracefully and suspensefully told by Newbery Medallist Linda Sue Park and illustrated with radiant paintings by Julie Downing.

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LINDA SUE PARK
is the author of four novels, Seesaw Girl, The Kite Fighters, When My Name Was Keoko, and the Newbery Medal winner A Single Shard. She lives with her family in Rochester, New York. This is her first picture book for Clarion.

JULIE DOWNING
is an accomplished watercolorist with nearly two dozen picture books to her credit, including Mozart, Tonight (Simon & Schuster) and A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (Orchard). Ms. Downing, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children.

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