Category: Language Arts: Fiction

Grade Level: Grades 4th to 8th

Copyright/published Year: 2003 by Random House

ISBN: 0440418518

Binding: Paper

Description: Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives ì under a bridge in a potters' village and longs to learn how to ì create the delicate ceramics himself after he watches master ì potter Min making his beautiful pottery.

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Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean potters' ì village. For a long time he is content living with Crane-man ì under a bridge barely surviving on scraps of food. All that ì changes when he sees master potter Min making his beautiful ì pottery. Tree-ear sneaks back to Min's workplace and dreams of ì creating his own pots someday. When he accidentally breaks a pot, ì he must work for the master to pay for the damage. Though the ì work is long and hard, Tree-ear is eager to learn. Then he is ì sent to the King's Court to show the master's pottery. Little ì does Tree-ear know that this difficult and dangerous journey will ì change his life forever.

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