Hi! First request but long time member.
Could you please recommend a book that includes:
– Boarding school
– Young (teen-young adult age) characters
Martial arts training (any)
– Ideally set in South Korea, Japan, or any place where the martial art originates from in the story
– Fictional preferred but I’ll take non fiction
Really wanting like a taekwondo boarding school teen finds out how cool she is vibe if it exists
Ideally the book can be read in English, please
Thank you!
by dizzynoot
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The only example I’ve read that sort of fits was a webnovel (so translated from Chinese). The first arc of the novel takes place in a boarding school, the heroine is initially training to be a pharmacist, which in the book’s world feel more like alchemy than our world’s pharmacology lol then she secretly trains to become a warlock (a taboo profession in that world) and also an archer lol she’s a bit of an OTT overpowered heroine.
I don’t know if any of that sounds like something you’d be interested in, especially since the boarding school aspect is only at the beginning of the story and the rest is about saving the world with her friends, but if you do, it’s called The Good-for-Nothing Seventh Miss by North Night.
Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman is his memoir about being one of the first Americans to enter China after Nixon’s visit. He is there at a school to be a teacher of English to medical students. But as a child and teen he had studied Chinese martial arts, language and culture in the 1970s in Connecticut and his interest in going there was improve his abilities. He met and trained with a few master Martial Artists when there is a personalized unstructured way.
Later, he went back and wrote the memoir Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia about those childhood and teen years and being an outcast and finding his purpose in martial arts and Chinese language and culture, but he did it living with his family.