An empowering, important must-read for today's turbulent times. Collect them all: I Escaped North Korea I Escaped The California Camp Fire I Escaped The World's Deadliest Shark Attack I Escaped Amazon River Pirates A study guide is available at This intermediate chapter book series for kids 9-12 is sure to appeal to fans of New York Times Bestseller Lauren Tarshis's I Survived adventures and Refugee by Alan Gratz. For how else can he help feed his family and pay the bribes to free his father? But can he survive the deadly crossing? Does he have what it takes to escape? Young readers will be transported by the I Escaped children's books about brave kids who face real-world challenges and disasters and find ways to escape. Alone, things turn from bad to worse and Dae dreams of rebellion-of fleeing across the scary border into China to look for work. When Dae's beloved father is hauled away to a hard-labor camp, the young teen must fend for himself. Dae begins to question why the Great Leaders look so well fed.

At school, Dae and his friends bow before the giant portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, their clothes flapping around their bony limbs.

Yet the painfully skinny boy can't help wondering why all his family has to eat is watery porridge made from grass. 14-year-old Dae has been taught that North Korea is the best place in the world. 'belongs on every reading list' Asian/Pacific American Award for Children's Literature winner Ellie Crowe and bestselling children's author Scott Peters tell this gripping story about one young refugee's escape from the oppression of North Korea. The Survival Series that celebrates the awesome history of us.

I Escaped North Korea by Ellie Crowe