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Purchasing Information
Dancing to Freedom: The True Story of Mao's Last
Dancer, by Li Cunxin
Illustrated by Anne Spudvilas
ISBN 978-0-8027-9777-3
$16.95
Hardcover nonfiction picture book
Recommended as a teacher read-aloud for Grades
K – 6 40 pages
Red Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural Revolution,
written and illustrated by Ange Zhang
ISBN 978-0-88899-489-9 $19.95
Hardcover nonfiction picture book
Recommended for Grades 3 – up
56 pages

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New York: D. Appleton-Century.
Zhang, A. (2004). Red land, yellow river: A story from
the Cultural Revolution. Toronto, Canada:
Groundwood Books.

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