Compestine, Ying Chang.

Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel / Ying Chang Compestine. - 1st Square Fish ed. - New York : Square Fish, 2009, c2007. - 248 p. : maps ; 20 cm.

Wilson's Children, January 2009 Wilson's Junior High School, November 2008 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2008 School Library Journal, August 2007 Pub Weekly, July 2007 Booklist, August 2007 Horn Book, April 2008 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2007 Kirkus Review, July 2007

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.

5.2 5-8 Follett Library Resources



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Persecution--Fiction.
Family life--China--Fiction.
Physicians--Fiction.
Communism--Fiction.


China--History--1949-1976--Fiction.

PZ7.C73615 / Rev 2009

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