{"id":9135,"date":"2018-05-16T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=9135"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:57:54","slug":"angela-ahn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/angela-ahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Ahn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Angela Ahn was born in Seoul, Korea, but lived most of her life in Vancouver. She was a high school English and social studies teacher, and English as a second language instructor in Hong Kong. She earned a masters degree in library and information studies at the University of British Columbia and worked in a variety of libraries before shifting her attention to homemaking and now writing. Ahn lives in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Chapter book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Big Splash<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated by Julie Kim.
Toronto: Tundra Books, 2025.
Series: Julia on the Go! #2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Julia is dismayed to learn that Coach Marissa has to leave the Vipers swim team for an urgent family matter. Coach Nathan, their new temporary coach, is strict and humorless. He doesn’t even let them have Splash Time! And it’s not just Julia who’s upset \u2014 two of her teammates have even quit the team. So it’s no surprise that the team is not enthusiastic when Coach Nathan asks them to put together a car wash fundraiser for the team.

But then they learn that there’s going to be a big increase in pool rental fees, which means the Vipers may lose practice days, or worse, not be able to swim at all. Julia takes the lead and gets the Vipers organized. Along the way, she learns more about her nemesis, teammate Olivia, and even Coach Nathan. Maybe first impressions aren’t always the most accurate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Chapter book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Double O Stephen and the Ghostly Realm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Stephen loves pirates. What he doesn’t love is his name: Stephen Oh-O’Driscoll. He believes when his Korean mother and Irish father gave him this name, that it was just one cruel setup for being teased. Giving things the proper name is important, which is why Stephen thinks that it’s time to update the definition of “pirate.” They’ve got a bad rep, and maybe they deserve some of it, but Stephen still likes a few pirate traditions, like bandannas and eyepatches \u2014 he’s just not that into stealing things from people. He has the perfect new word: piventurate<\/em>. A sailor who passionately seeks adventure. That’s what he wants to be. 

When he gets suspended from school for doing proper piventurate-in-training things (using sticks to practice sword fighting), his mother doesn’t let him sit around doing nothing, instead she takes him to a museum. At the museum everything changes. Stephen finds himself in a strange new place, face-to-face with a real pirate. A pirate ghost<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Chapter book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Krista Kim-Bap<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Second Story Press, 2018.
PZ7.1 .A36 K75 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Krista and Jason have been best friends since preschool. It never mattered that he was a boy with reddish-brown hair and she was the \u201cKorean girl\u201d at school. Now in fifth grade, everyone in their class is preparing their Heritage Month projects. Jason has always loved Krista\u2019s Korean family, and particularly her mom\u2019s cooking, but Krista is conflicted about being her school\u2019s \u201cKorean Ambassador\u201d. She\u2019s also worried about asking her intimidating grandma to teach the class how to make their traditional kimbap. Combine that with her new friends pulling her away from Jason, and Krista has a lot to deal with this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2019-20 Hackmatack Children’s Book Award<\/a> — English fiction (Shortlist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Chapter book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Peter Lee’s Notes from the Field<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Tundra Books, 2021.
PS8601.H6 P48 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Eleven year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. Okay, maybe two: to get his genius kid-sister, L.B., to leave him alone. But his summer falls apart when his real-life dinosaur expedition turns out to be a bust, and he watches his dreams go up in a cloud of asthma-inducing dust. Even worse, his grandmother, Hammy, is sick, and no one will talk to Peter or L.B. about it. Perhaps his days as a scientist aren\u2019t quite behind him yet. Armed with notebooks and pens, Peter puts his observation and experimental skills to the test to see what he can do for Hammy. If only he can get his sister to be quiet for once \u2013 he needs time to sketch out a plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2021 Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature (Text), English language<\/a> (Finalist)
2022 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize<\/a> (BC and Yukon Book Prizes)(Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Chapter book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Swimming into Trouble<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated by Julie Kim.
Toronto: Tundra Books, 2024.
Series: Julia on the Go! #1
PZ7.1.A36 J85 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As a member of the Vipers Swim Team, Julia Nam\u2019s always in the pool. Mountainview Community Center is like her second home, not only because swimming at the aquatic center is her favorite thing in the world, but also because her parents run the center\u2019s sushi caf\u00e9. Julia would much rather be in the pool than sitting behind the counter of Sushi on the Go! watching other people swim. She\u2019s the youngest swimmer on the team, but definitely not the slowest. Julia can\u2019t wait for Personal Best Day \u2013 the most important day for all of the swimmers. If their times are good enough, they can enter a big regional swim meet. But then the worst thing happens. A sharp pain in Julia\u2019s ear reveals an infection and she\u2019s forbidden to swim for ten days. How can she get timed during Personal Best Day when she\u2019s not allowed in the water? Julia is desperate to get back in the pool, even if it means having to go behind her parents\u2019 backs in order to do so. But Julia\u2019s solution lands her in a sticky situation, and it\u2019s going to require the entire community center to come together to help her out of it!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Team Park<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Tundra Books, 2024.
PZ7.1.A47 T43 2024<\/a>
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Unlike his dad, Evan Park does not like team sports \u2014 no matter how hard he tries. And when an accident causes Evan to break his wrist, he is determined that once he heals, he’ll work on finding his thing. Alone. 

Inspired by his athletic physiotherapist, Evan decides to compete in an upcoming Dominator Ninja: Junior Edition competition. It will be part rehab, part fun. If he trains hard enough, he’ll finally have something to put on his empty shelf in the family trophy cabinet. Maybe that would make his dad proud of him for once.

But klutzy Evan strikes again, reinjuring his wrist. There’s no way he can compete in Dominator Ninja now \u2014 he can’t even hold chopsticks. When his sister encourages him to look beyond a solo competition, they discover a local family race that is more about the experience than the results. Can Evan shift his perspective to rally the whole family to do this event . . . together?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher Penguin Random House Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Second Story Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Tundra Books<\/a>, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Ahn’s personal website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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