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Author:

Yue, Guo, 1958-

Title:

Little Leap Forward : a boy in Beijing / by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow ; illustrated by Helen Cann.

Publisher:

Barefoot Books,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

126 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

China--History--1949-1976--Juvenile fiction.
China--History--1949-1976--Fiction.
Freedom--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Family life--China--Fiction.
Communism--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Farrow, Clare.
Cann, Helen, 1969- ill.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1846861144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781846861147 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)183926311

LCCN:

2007042676

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TNPD062 -- Belle Plaine Community Library (Belle Plaine)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

ZXPC675 -- Fisher-Whiting Memorial Library (Mapleton)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

ELPC715 -- Paullina Public Library (Paullina)

YFPC572 -- Springville Memorial Library (Springville)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

SKPC094 -- Sumner Public Library (Sumner)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)