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A Single Shard A Single Shard A Single Shard is a novel by Linda Sue Park, set in 12th-century Korea. It won the 2002 Newbery Medal, awarded for excellence in children's literature; it also received an honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature. A Single Shard is the Newbery Award winning novel by Linda Sue Park. "The New York Times" praised "A Single Shard" as being "deftly shaped" and "surprisingly moving", stating that the Newbery Medal would help expose the novel to an audience it would otherwise have not reached. Tree-ear is an orphan who lives under a bridge with Crane-man,