PARIS — Paris Public Library’s The Novel Idea Book Club, adults and youth reading, learning from and discussing children’s and youth’s books, will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 19, to discuss “Seesaw Girl” by Linda Park. The book is a juvenile historical novel set in Korea.
From Goodreads: “Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in 17th-century Korea, 12-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.
“Jade Blossom can never go beyond her family’s inner court. All girls from good Korean families must learn to sew, do laundry and work in the kitchen. This prepares them for their future lives in their husbands’ inner court.
“Jade has other interests. She longs to take trips to the mountains and the marketplace. If only she could read and paint, but these are things only boys can do. Jade won’t stop thinking about the world beyond the high walls of her home. Then one day she secretly sets off to do what no other girl her age has ever done before.”
FMI, reserve book: 207-743-6994.
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