My Name Is Yoon Juvenile Fiction Readers - Chapter Books Social Themes - Friendship Action & Adventure Let us take encouragement from

Let us take encouragement from Nehemiah and other biblical characters

she finds comfort in the attentions of the new track coach

Working up the courage to take a big

and begin to create for themselves

My Name Is Yoon Juvenile Fiction Readers - Chapter Books Social Themes - Friendship Action & Adventure Let us take encouragement fromGetting to feel at home in a new country Yoon's name means Shining Wisdom, and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her father tells her that she must learn to write it in English. In English, all the lines and circles stand alone, which is just how Yoon feels in the United States. Yoon isn't sure that she wants to be YOON. At her new school, she tries out different names maybe CAT or BIRD. Maybe CUPCAKE! Helen