Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
by Compestine, Ying Chang
ALA Notable/Best BooksPublishers Weekly Best BookPoliticsChina, People's Republic ofFamilyYALSA Best Books for YAJunior Library Guild Selection
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AR Book Level
4.7
AR Points
6
Word Count
43,520
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
118284 EN
About this book
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.