Inzone Book: Tae's Sonata

by Haemi Balgassi

Book Overview

Tae feel strange when Josh Morgan becomes her partner for a school report, things around her begin to change. Then she hears Josh play the "Moonlight" Sonata and her life begins to change, too.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736228012
• ISBN13: 9780736228015
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

this book was the best

tea's sonata is a good book. i would give it a 5 because it was so good and romantic. i enjoyed the end the most because josh came to sit with her because he liked her which she probbably had wished for. the book was so interesting and i enjoyed it with my class. it has being the best book i have read so far. the book also taught me a lesson like tae did.

The Understandable TaeYoung

This was a very good book with a character you could really relate to. I am Korean, and it was very interesting and amusing to see the Korean words such as umma and oppa. I could really relate to Tae and understood what she was going through. Even people who are not Korean could enjoy this book. Tae's Sonata is a well written book that describes and totally follows the troubles of being a teenager and feeling like an outcast.

good and not too long

I liked this book alot. It's not too long and it goes really fast. I finished it in one day! I don't think you have to be Korean to read this book. I'm not and I really related to Tae and what she was going through with the stuck up crowd.

A really great book!

This is a wonderful book. It made me feel really good to know that Josh, the boy Tae likes, isn't a jerk like the other Royals. Tae's feelings are really believable. I could really relate to her, especially when her best friend Meg betrays her. Read this book to find out how!

A story of immigration and first love

In a convincing first person voice, Taeyoung Kim tells her story of immigrant experience and first love. This first novel, infused with authentic details of Korean-American family life, brings to young readers the tumult of feelings Tae experiences as an "outsider," feelings she learns are not unique to her but are shared by so many others on the brink of adolescence, whether immigrant or native born.