Book
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
- Published
- 2007
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Pages
- 248
- Words
- 43520
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.7
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 740L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–17
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780805082074
- ISBN-10
- 0805082077
Tags
ALSC NotablesChinaHistorical FictionHistory-World HistoryPeople-ChildrenPeople-CommunistsRealistic FictionSocial Issues-Poverty