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My Pen Pal
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 1 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sometimes the smallest connection can make the biggest difference.
After losing his mother at a young age, Dawn is left to face the world with only his father's and small church's support. At nine-year-old Dawn feels the world shift beneath his feet, when he suddenly becomes the center of attention at school - for all the wrong reasons. The one shining star are the letters from a pen pal in South Korea: a boy his age who suffers from loneliness due to his failing body. Together the boys find something that they haven't felt in a long time - understanding.
As bullying follows him through childhood and into his teenage years, Dawn chooses to stick with his chosen path. Guided by years of honest letters, encouragement, and hard-earned wisdom from across the world, he learns to respond to cruelty with character and isolation with integrity even though it is never easy.
By sixteen, Dawn resigned to his high school fate - but life is about to become far more complicated. When a beautiful female student from Korea moves next door, long-held assumptions begin to unravel. And when the CIA unexpectedly enters the picture, the quiet friendship that shaped Dawn's life is pulled into a whirlwind he never saw coming.
My Pen Pal is an inspiring coming-of-age story about grief, resilience, brotherhood across borders, and the powerful - sometimes dangerous - impact of doing what's right.Also in
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