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90 pp.
| Houghton |
January, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-395-72290-X
(4)
K-3
This old-fashioned account of a young American girl growing up in China "a very long time ago" is rich in detail, and the incidents described have child-appeal: Mei Fuh raises silkworms while recuperating from a burn; she visits other families at mealtimes to be fed the Chinese food her parents forbid. The anecdotes are appealing, but there is too little narrative to pull them together.