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Jean Fritz - Homesick: My Own Story/2 Filmstrips & 2 Cassettes

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Jean Fritz - Homesick: My Own Story/2 Filmstrips & 2 Cassettes
 

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This is the author's own story of her upbringing in China by a missionary father, a distant mother, and an affectionate Chinese nurse, Lin Nai-Nai. The book examines the added difficulties foreigners experienced in a country where life was harsh even for natives, and chronicles the loneliness of an only child who longs to discover her roots in the homeland she never knew. Illustrated with photographs.
 

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Date of Review:  Jun 13, 2000
Review: In a world of Juvenille literature that seems to be dominated recently by Goosebumps and the like, I decided that I would, in an effort to get my two older daughters to read good books, start a contest with them. My daughters then aged 10 and 11 and...
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  5.0

by: lactavist
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Well written, retains a child's POV
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Product Details and Features

Key Information

Authors Jean Fritz
Illustrator Margot Tomes
Fiction Genre Juvenile Fiction
Fiction Subgenre Unknown
Awards 1983 Newbery Medal

Book Editions

  Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (December 01, 1982)
Measurements: 8.75"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 0.65"(d), 0.75 lbs.
ISBN: 9780399209338

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  In my father's study there was a large globe with all the countries of the world running around it.
 
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