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The author's fictionalized account of her childhood in China in the 1920s. Full description
Summary: |
The author's fictionalized account of her childhood in China in the 1920s. |
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Item Description: |
"A Newbery Honor Book"--cover |
Physical Description: |
163 p. |
ISBN: |
9780142407615 0142407615 |
Author Notes: |
Homesick: My Own Story, a collection of linked narratives, traces her life from her girlhood in China to her longed-for yet uneasy passage to America. It won a National Book Award and was named a Newbery Honor Book. She received the Regina Medal by the Catholic Library Association, the National Humanities Medal, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature for her body of work. She died on May 14, 2017 at the age of 101. (Bowker Author Biography) |