"A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park is about an orphan named Tree-ear who lives with Crane-Man, an old, homeless widower who took Tree-ear in when an epidemic raged through the monasteries', who could not keep Tree-ear in fear of contaminating him. The setting of this story is in a twelfth-century Korean potters' village Ch'ulp'o. Tree-ear was content to live with Crane-man under a bridge, barely surviving on a few scraps of food. All of …showed first 75 words of 986 total…

…showed last 75 words of 986 total…the artistry and inventive process of these craftsmen and about the imaginative urges of this young orphan. This is a beautiful story, about patience, endurance and love, and friendship, which is well worth reading. This is a story of a boy, a family, a culture, and, ultimately, how a single shard of celadon pottery changed them all forever. I will always cherish this book for teaching me some very important lessons on emotion and life.