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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

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1932
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Young Fu arrives in Chungking with his mother after a childhood in a farming village. City life brings unfamiliar opportunities and risks as he makes friends and learns from mistakes. Elizabeth Foreman Lewis's historical coming-of-age story places his growing independence within the uncertainty of China during the 1920s.

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Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis drew on years teaching and supervising schools in China for her best-known children's fiction. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, first published in 1932, follows a country boy learning the coppersmith's trade in 1920s Chungking, now Chongqing. The book received the 1933 Newbery Medal.

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First published
1932
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
238
Language
English
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