Plastic box contains paperback book and audiobook in clamshell case. 5 cassettes, 6.25 hrs.
Twelve-year-old Ji-Li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China's infamous Cultural Revolution. Soon school is suspended and students are getting caught up in the fervor of Mao's extreme politics. Because Ji-Li's grandfather was a landlord, her family was harassed and humiliated. Their home was searched, and they live in constant fear. Nonetheless, Ji-Li's remains loyal to her beloved Chairman Mao and endeavors to "reform her ideology." But with her father's detention, Ji-Li is faced with the most difficult choice of her life. Told with simple grace, this is the true story of a family's courage in one of the most terrifying eras of modern history. Christina Moore's moving narration makes the Jiang family's saga unforgettable.
"Engrossing . . . Transcends politics and becomes the story of one little girl trying to survive." Booklist, starred review The Horn Book praises the narrator "Moore reads with deliberation, allowing the underlying (and understated) emotional context to emerge gradually, taking on definition as it does so."
