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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

59 reviews
Bette Bao Lord

HarperTrophy, 1986

Loved It!
I love this book. This book tells you how to overcome loneliness. Shirley found a way to make some good friends. I would have you read this book because it lets you learn what it would feel like to move from one place to another. It also tells you how different and unique other people can be. It's a really good book. (written by my sixth grade student, Ashley)

Spring Moon: A Novel of China

21 reviews
Bette Bao Lord

Harper Perennial, 2004

A Wonderful Documentary of Fiction
The review by Jeanne-Scott thoroughly summarizes Spring Moon. It is difficult reading but well worth the time. I can only recommend this book to people who have a keen interest in East Asian cultures and history, as it is completely immersed in the politics and revolutionary thought of the era. Whether some of the translations from Chinese literature are precisely accurate or not is immaterial ...

The Chinese American Family Album (The American Family Albums)
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

The Chinese American Family Album is a scrapbook of family letters and diary entries, official documents, newspaper articles, and excerpts from literature of the past and present--a personal remembrance of an extended family of Chinese immigrants and their descendants. As we read, we begin to know this family almost as well as our own. The letters written by the new immigrants to the folks left behind in China allow us to feel the ache of ...

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic

5 reviews
Bette Bao Lord

Ballantine Books, 1991

Painful stories of the Cultural Revolution
Bao Lord's book is a montage of stories about her family and friends in China against first, the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, and then Tienamen Square in 1989. There have been many books that have come out in the 1990's on the Cultural revolution, an unimaginably painful period of 10 years in China during which Mao Zedong turned the people against one another as a way of deflecting ...

Middle Heart

8 reviews
Inc. Bette Bao Lord Enterprises

Ballantine Books, 1997

one tragic chinese novel
well in the first place, i'm not chinese so i can't react to how 'chinese' her novel is. this is one of the few novels that i've sworn not to read again not because it was ugly... but because it made me cry. i don't like crying and would rather smile and smile and smile than cry. but this novel suceeded in doing that. it is very tragic and a good story of friendship. highly recommended for ...