Girl Under a Red Moon: Growing Up During China's Cultural Revolution

Girl Under a Red Moon: Growing Up During China's Cultural RevolutionNew York Times bestselling author Da Chen weaves a deeply moving account of his resolute older sister and their childhood growing up together during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In a small village called Yellow Stone, in southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student. She brews tea for her grandfather in the morning, leads recitations at school as class monitor, and helps care for her youngest brother, Da. But when students are

New York Times bestselling author Da Chen weaves a deeply moving account of his resolute older sister and their childhood growing up together during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
In a small village called Yellow Stone, in southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student. She brews tea for her grandfather in the morning, leads recitations at school as class monitor, and helps care for her youngest brother, Da.

But when students are selected during a school ceremony to join the prestigious Red Guard, Sisi is passed over. Worse, she is shamed for her family's past -- they are former landowners who have no place in the new Communist order. Her only escape is to find work at another school, bringing Da along with her. But the siblings find new threats in Bridge Town, too, and Sisi will face choices between family and nation, between safety and justice. With the tide of the Cultural Revolution rising, Sisi must decide if she will swim against the current, or get swept up in the wave.

Bestselling author Da Chen paints a vivid portrait of his older sister and a land thrust into turmoil during the tumultuous Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 09/03/2019
ISBN: 9781338263862
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 07/01/2019
Booklist 06/01/2019 pg. 80
School Library Journal 09/27/2019 pg. 1

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 504897 / Girl Under a Red Moon
Reading Level: 7.2 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4