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    <body><![CDATA[7th grade Korean student, Julia Song and her friend Patrick want to develop an award-winning project for the state fair. Her mother suggests that they raise silkworms as she did at one time, but Julia wants to do something more &quot;American.&quot;  As the story progresses she and Patrick expand th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67497687">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Project Mulberry&quot; is a book about two best friends who do an agricultural project together on silkworms. This may have been nominated for a 2009 Caudill award, but some things made it boring for me. I thought that the characters were not described very well. You don't really get any perso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45122648">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Julia Song and her friend Patrick would love to win a blue ribbon, maybe even two, at the state fair.  They've always done projects together, and they work well as a team.  This time, though, they're having trouble coming up with just the right plan.  Then Julia's mother offers a suggestion: They can raise silkworms, as she did when she was a girl in Korea. Patrick thinks it's a great idea.  Of course there are obstaclesfor example, where will they get mulberry leaves, the only thing silkworms eat?but nothing they can't handle. Julia isn't so sure.  The club where kids do their projects is all about traditional American stuff, and raising silkworms just doesn't fit in.  Moreover, the author, Ms.  Park, seems determined to make Julia's life as complicated as possible, no matter how hard Julia tries to talk her out of it. In her first novel with a contemporary setting, Linda Sue Park delivers a funny, lively story that illuminates both the process of writing a novel and the meaning of growing up American.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are a lot of themes going on in this book.  It feels a little messy, and some of the ideas are never tied up successfully.  It also gets a bit preachy at times.  It also has sections between the chapters where the author discusses things with the main character; it didn't really work for me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually liked the premise of the book:  The 4-H project that helps our central character span the gap between her Korean heritage and her American lifestyle.  But the author comments between chapters were REALLY obnoxious.  Some of the information about the writing process was interesting, but I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48505555">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Why I really, really like this book:<br/><br/>1.  <br/>Julia, a Korean-American seventh-grader, deals with a lot of issues common to Asians growing up in the United States.  I immediately identified with some of her insecurities.<br/><br/>2.  <br/>Patrick, Julia's best friend, becomes her frie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59680702">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[(4/5th grade reading level--what can I say, I like that level) Project Mulberry (which is a library book I've misplaced, so if anyone sees it..) uses this very MFA grad school device of inserting the self in jaunty, jagged bits throughout and interrupting the narrative. I'm sure there is a name for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27032400">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[read this one with favoreads in mind.  it’s a good story about a korean girl whose best friend is the guy next door.  they decide to work together on a [4h] project and choose to raise silkworms.  the author does a great job of weaving together facts about raising silkworms and harvesting their si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21169388">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Julia Song is uncomfortable with her Korean heritage and is desperate to fit in.  So, when her mother suggests that she and her best friend, Patrick, raise silkworms for their science project, Julia agrees, but secretly hopes to sabotage the project.  She would prefer something more &quot;American.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54727792">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Jullia Song and her best friend Patrick do a silkworm project for Wiggle club. She doesn't want to at first, because it's too Korean, but she comes to love the worms and learns to embroider. An interesting format: Park has conversations with her character between chapters. Story low-key, school and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64308831">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Tons of curricular connections here: we've got science in several ways including life cycles and ecology, we've got the writing process, and we've got racial relationships.  The treatment of race is particularly interesting because I don't think we see much in chidren's literature about the rocky re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32383717">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well-written, as many Linda Sue Park novels are. The main character is Julia, a Korean-American girl, who wants to shun her heritage rather than embrace it. That is until she has to do a project and chooses silkworms as the topic. Two oddities: 1) a bizarre, racist subplot, and 2) between the chapte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57439540">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Book covers so much - intimate lifecycle of silkworms, basic embroidery, sustainable farming and ethics of raising farm animals, racism, what it takes to be a good friend. Realistic, fun dialog. Author/main character banter following each chapter shows young writers how a storyline and characters ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42537426">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book. A lot!! It was fun to read, but it was also very informational for a girl of my age. Plus, my parents are Korean, so I can relate to Julia Song a lot (including the kimchee smells and etc.) I also enjoyed the parts where Julia had conversations with the author. A very fun book and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59199455">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Project Mullberry is about a young girl named... who is doing a project about animals with her best friend... Patrick. When her Korean mother sugests that they do a project on silkworms, Patrick loves the idea. But ... thinks it is to Korean. Finally, when ... decides to do the project on silkworms,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72624370">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Linda Sue Park is an author I pick up, based on author.<br/><br/>This book includes the ups and downs of friendship and compromise. Makes me want to try my own Mulberry project.<br/><br/>Linda Sue Park shares some of her discussions with her character. Fun to be privy to her thought/writing proc...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Julia and Patrick, seven grade members of the Wiggle Club (which is just like the 4H Club), decide to raise silkworms... and complications ensue! Julia's first person narrative is full of life -- absolutely charming -- but seems a bit young for her nominal age. (Perhaps this is to make her more rela...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2963892">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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