Paula Yoo

Jan 9, 2025 | hbook.com | Emma A. Shacochis |Maurene Goo |Nikki Giovanni |Paula Yoo

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Dec 5, 2024 | hbook.com | Paula Yoo |Kekla Magoon |Cynthia Smith |Jack Gantos

It all started when I was a baby. For my 돌 Dol, a traditional Korean first birthday ceremony, I sat in front of several objects. I grabbed a pen, which meant I would become a writer. That prediction came true. I started off as a newspaper and magazine reporter. Now I also work as a TV writer/producer, and I currently have a dozen books published for children and young adults.

Jun 5, 2024 | bookriot.com | Paula Yoo |Kelly Jensen

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher RSS This week, guest host Sharifah offers up some excellent backlist science fiction and fantasy recommendations, and Kelly chats with author Paula Yoo about YA nonfiction and more.

May 7, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Paula Yoo |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky

An account of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, focusing particularly on the stories of Rodney King, Latasha Harlins, and Eddie Lee. Protests erupted in Los Angeles County in April 1992, following the shocking acquittal of four police officers accused of using excessive force in brutally beating King, an unarmed Black man, during a traffic arrest in March 1991.

Apr 18, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Paula Yoo |Rosena Fung |Andrea Lynn |Britta Teckentrup

Via vivid prose, Yoo (From a Whisper to a Rally) depicts the events surrounding the acquittal of the four police officers who brutalized Black motorist Rodney King in 1992 L.A. By centering the violent attempted arrest of Black 21-year-old Marquette Frye in 1965, the author contextualizes the history of the LAPD’s racist policing and emphasizes how incidents such as King’s were not isolated.