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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.

Publication Info. Cambridge, MA : Barefoot Books, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Children's Department  JF YUEH    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Children's Department  J FICTION YUE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Juvenile Fiction  JF YUE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Fiction  J YUE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  J YUE    Check Shelf
Description 126 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.2 2.0 124730.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
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.
Subject China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Juvenile fiction.
Liberty -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- China -- Juvenile fiction.
Communism -- Juvenile fiction.
China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Fiction.
Freedom -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Family life -- China -- Fiction.
Communism -- Fiction.
Added Author Farrow, Clare, author.
Cann, Helen, 1969- illustrator.
ISBN 9781846861147 hardcover alkaline paper $16.99
1846861144 hardcover alkaline paper $16.99
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