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Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In Communist China in 1966, eight-year-old Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his best friend, by trying to get a caged wild bird to sing, and through the music he is learning to play on a bamboo flute. Includes author's notes on his childhood in Beijing, life under Mao Zedong, and the Cultural Revolution.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Left alone to prepare their family's prize-winning dumplings for the annual cooking contest, the young Kang boys accidentally invent a new dish, "mian tiao," or noodles. Includes a cultural note and a recipe for long life noodles.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In a small village called Yellow Stone, in southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student. She brews tea for her grandfather in the morning, leads recitations at school as class monitor, and helps care for her youngest brother, Da.
But when students are selected during a school ceremony to join the prestigious Red Guard, Sisi is passed over. Worse, she is shamed for her family's past -they are former landowners who have no place...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
It is the late 1960s and there is no peace in the village of Yellow Stone for little Da and his family, who were former landowners; they are all persecuted by the Red Guard, particularly Da's oldest sister, Sisi, who tries hard to conform to the new political realities, but who cannot overcome the frightened hostility of the other villagers--so Sisi escapes to find work in a school in another town, taking Da with her, and trying to find a compromise...