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In her four novels for juvenile and young adult readers, Linda Sue Park introduces a Korea of many eras. Winner of the 2002 John Newbery Medal, with A Single Shard, Park convincingly brings to life twelfth-century Korea. In Park's first novel, Seesaw Girl, the setting is seventeenth-century Korea, while The Kite Fighters features that same country in the late fifteenth century. For her 2002 novel, When My Name Was Keoko, Park moves forward to the years 1940 to 1945 to tell the story of the effects of World War II from the points of view of two young siblings. "Although her stories seem to have sprouted from Korea's soil," noted Kathleen T. Horning in a School Library Journal interview with the author, "Park herself is a daughter of the Midwest, born in Urbana, [Illinois,] and brought up in Park Forest, a suburb of Chicago." Speaking with an interviewer for Time for Kids, Park commented about her Korean themes: "My parents came over [to the United States] in the 1950s, and there weren't very many Koreans at all.
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