Homesick, My Own Story - Hardcover

Fritz, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399209336 ISBN 13: 9780399209338

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 1982

Synopsis

Light toning to board edges, content clean, light spotting to page ends - solidly bound. Good DJ.

About this title

About the Author:

Acclaimed biographer, Jean Fritz, was born in China where she lived until the age of thirteen. She tells her story inHomesick, My Own Story, a Newbery Honor Book.Ms Fritz is the author of forty-five books for children and young people. Many center on historical American figures, gaining her a reputation as the premier author of biographies for children and young people.Among the prestigious awards Ms. Fritz has garnered are: a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Non-Fiction Award, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and many ALA Notable Books of the Year,School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, and ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice Awards.

Synopsis:

The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0399209336
• ISBN 13: 9780399209338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 163
• Illustrator: Tomes Margot