A Single Shard.
Park, Linda Sue
A Single Shard. - New York, NY : Dell Yearling, 2001.
A Newbery Medal Book/ Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominee
Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a twelfth-century Korean potters' village. For a long time he is content to live with Crane-man under a bridge, barely surviving on scraps of food. All of that changes when Tree-ear sees master potter Min making his beautiful pottery. Tree-ear sneaks into Min's workplace and dreams of creating his own pots someday. When he accidentally breaks a pot, he must work for the master to pay for the damage.
0-440-41851-8
Pottery--Fiction
Korea--History--Koryo period, 935-1392--Fiction
Historical Fiction
A Single Shard. - New York, NY : Dell Yearling, 2001.
A Newbery Medal Book/ Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominee
Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a twelfth-century Korean potters' village. For a long time he is content to live with Crane-man under a bridge, barely surviving on scraps of food. All of that changes when Tree-ear sees master potter Min making his beautiful pottery. Tree-ear sneaks into Min's workplace and dreams of creating his own pots someday. When he accidentally breaks a pot, he must work for the master to pay for the damage.
0-440-41851-8
Pottery--Fiction
Korea--History--Koryo period, 935-1392--Fiction
Historical Fiction