Title Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel / Ying Chang Compestine.

Publication Info.

New York : H. Holt, 2007.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Fiction	J COM	Check Shelf
Plainville Public Library - Children's Department	J COMPESTINE	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	248 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 6.0 118284.
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection
Note	Maps on endpapers.
Contents	1. Little flower -- Father's ponytails -- Waste is a great crime -- Bartering with Comrade Li-- Homemade ice cream and German chocolate -- "Bloodsucking landlord!" -- Will butterflies land on me? -- The terrifying birthday -- Crushed under the heel -- 2. Bamboo in the wind -- Revolution is not a dinner party -- Drawing a class line -- Dark clouds -- Would I ever see him again? -- The long white rope -- Shopping with Mother -- 3. Bridge behind Mao -- Angry tiger -- Too proud to bend -- Waiting for Daddy -- Howling wolf -- Pig fat -- Golden Gate Bridge -- Author's note -- Historical background.
Summary	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.
Subject	China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Persecution -- Juvenile fiction.
	Families -- China -- Juvenile fiction.
	Physicians -- Juvenile fiction.
	Communism -- Juvenile fiction.
	China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction.
	Persecution -- Fiction.
	Family life -- China -- Fiction.
	Physicians -- Fiction.
	Communism -- Fiction.
ISBN	0805082077 alkaline paper
	9780805082074 alkaline paper
	142875704X BWI bdg.
	9781428757042 BWI bdg.

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