By Helen Recorvits, Illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska　　　　　　　　　　　　      (Frances Foster Books ~ in 2008)

This is the 3rd story of Yoon who moved from Korea to America with her family, and featured Yoon’s birthday. Yoon wants a jump rope to join the other girls on the school playground. Instead Yoon receives a Korean storybook from her mother, and a jade bracelet that once belonged to her grandmother. Next day at school, a girl offers to teach Yoon how to jump rope, if she can borrow Yoon’s jade bracelet.  Yoon agrees, but when Yoon wants to get her keepsake bracelet, the girl insists it belong to her. >>>My name is Yoon ( in 2003, 2014)、Yoon and the Christomas Mitten (in 2006)

米国ではお馴染みになっているYoonシリーズの３冊目。祖母からの翡翠の腕輪を、お誕生日プレゼントにもらったYoonだが、ほんとに欲しかったのは縄跳びであった。仲間はずれの韓国人のYooonは、縄跳びの仲間に入りたい為に、大事な腕輪を学校の女の子に貸してあげたが、、、、異文化の狭間でもおちゃめで明るいYoonらしい発想が、このシリーズの人気をよんでいる。