5/12/2023 0 Comments Rice from Heaven by Tina M. Cho![]() ![]() With renewed spirit, volunteers gather in groups, fill the balloons with air, and tie the Styrofoam containers filled with rice to the tails of the balloons. People right over the border don't have food. Villagers glare and grumble, and children protest feeding the enemy, but Yoori doesn't back down. Yoori doesn't know how she can help as she's only a little "grain of rice" herself, but Appa tells her that they can secretly help the starving people by sending special balloons that carry rice over the border. Starving, he fled to South Korea in search of a better life. ![]() Appa grew up in North Korea, where he did not have enough food to eat. ![]() Yoori lives in South Korea and doesn't know what North Korea is like, but her father (Appa) does. Beyond that wall and across the sea live children just like me, except they do not have food to eat." " We reach a place where mountains become a wall. Rice from Heaven is a true story about compassion and bravery as a young girl and her community in South Korea help deliver rice via balloons to the starving and oppressed people in North Korea. ![]()
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