Jean Fritz

The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's. "Fritz draws readers into scenes of her youth in the turbulent China of the mid-twenties. . . . the generous affection of her nurse/companion . . . her mother's grief over losing a second child, the dynamics of asuffering population venting its hostility on foreigners, and most of all, the loneliness of a child's exile from a homeland she...

<p>From award-winning children's author Jean Fritz comes the incredible true account of the Long March, a six-thousand-mile journey across China</p><p>In 1986, Jean Fritz went to China and talked to survivors of the Long March. It is from their recollections and her own broad, personal knowledge of Chinese history that Fritz has written one of the most compelling accounts of the incredible six-thousand-mile journey across China made...