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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 951.056
EAN: 9780061667718
ISBN: 0061667714
Label: HarperTeen
Manufacturer: HarperTeen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperTeen
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Studio: HarperTeen

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains, tons of friends, and a bright future in Communist China. But it's also the year that China's leader, Mao Ze-dong, launches the Cultural Revolution—and Ji-li's world begins to fall apart. Over the next few years, people who were once her friends and neighbors turn on her and her family, forcing them to live in constant terror of arrest. When Ji-li's father is finally imprisoned, she faces the most difficult dilemma of her life.



This is the true story of one girl's determination to hold her family together during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.






Rating: - Red Scarf Girl
The book "Red Scarf Girl" is an in-depth, moving memoir about a twelve year-old girl named Ji-li who was living her life to the fullest until the Cultural Revolution. "...I felt like the luckiest girl in the world" (17) Ji-li says. Then one day, China's leader, Chairman Mao, launched the Revolution, and Ji-li's life is flipped upside-down. Student inspectors begin to harass people who are wearing old fashions in public, and Ji-li and her friends are bullied in school because of their families and ... Read More

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Rating: - Classics for homeschoolers
This book fits nicely in our homeschooling reading program. It is a wonderful addition to our classics collection.

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Rating: - Red Scarf Girl
A compelling memoir from a girl growing up during the Chinese cultural revolution. Filled with patriotic fervor for the Chinese communist government, Ji-li is at first ashamed to be part of her family, which is persecuted because of her grandfather's political beliefs. But as she sees injustices heaped onto the heads of many people around her, she gradually becomes disillusioned and no longer believes government propaganda. Ji-li's authentic voice inspires discussion about family loyalties, government ... Read More

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Rating: - Red is Dead
I read this book quite a few books ago. What I remember was that it was very compelling. The author is forced to serve the "People" and endures many hardships while working in an Army production camp. Her description reminds one of Siberian memoirs on not such a grand scale, rather a Chinese adaptation.
The author begins by demonstrating her arrogance through stories of her childhood prior to service in the camp, she was selfish and cruel.
She excels as a patriot, and is promoted as ... Read More

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Rating: - Fantastic!
This book is about the cultural revolution. Through her own difficult hard times, the author tells the story of her and her family from the age of 12-14. This book is great for children and adults. It really tells what happened to family's during the cultural revolution

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