Though written for personal reasons, Sixth Grade Stories from Young Hoon will hold the interest of many readers who either have yet to experience or who now already remember the joy and anxiety of being in the last year of elementary school, looking forward to and dreading middle school at the same time. Sixth Grade Stories from Young Hoon is one of the first books published in English from the point of view of a sixth grade Korean author-narrator. From the Author's Notes: "I didn't write this book because I consider myself a particularly talented writer. This book is simply a collection of stories that I wrote throughout the sixth grade because I wanted to keep some memories of my last year of elementary school if I were to look back at it several years later. The years that I spent in kindergarten and first grade can't be recalled that well when I try. I only remember them in pieces, like scenes in a movies with no sound -- vaguely, sometimes without the details, and some parts better or less well than others. I didn't want the same to happen to my last year of elementary school. I also wanted to be able to read about our experiences -- as sixth graders in Korea -- as we experience it or would like to experience it . . ."