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No Rules Tonight
Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada
Illustrator: Ryan Estrada
Ages: 14+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-52130-4
Keywords: Historical Fiction-South Korea, dictatorships, censorship, Korean Folk Dances, Christmas, new romances
In South Korea in the 1980s Sook's adventure to a winter camp allows her and others a night of freedom and a chance to keep a banned book club alive. Expressive graphics. Semi-autobiographical.