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Recorvits, Helen.  
YOON AND THE CHRISTMAS MITTEN
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
IL K-3, RL 1.9
ISBN 0374386889
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Yoon and her family are new to America.  And Yoon is learning all about Christmas from her teacher in school.  When she tells her parents about it, they tell her that they are Korean and don't do Christmas.  But Yoon is determined that Mr. Santa Claus will visit her even if her parents don't believe.  What do you think?  Will Yoon find a way?
SUBJECTS:      Korean Americans -- Fiction.
                        Immigrants -- Fiction.
                        Christmas -- Fiction.
                        Christmas stories.

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