The children's author provides a fictionalized, but historically accurate, account of her childhood in 1920s China.

A twenty-fifth anniversary release provides the author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920s. A Newbery Honor Book. Reissue.

This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of Jean FritzÂ's award-winning account of her life in China, and to honor this story, it is only fitting that it be added to our prestigious line of Puffin Modern Classics. This fictionalized autobiography tells the heartwarming story of a little girl growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying their childhood in America, Jean Fritz was in China in the midst of political unrest. Jean Fritz tells her captivating story of the difficulties of living in a unfamiliar country at such a difficult time.