“By writing a narrative for young readers of the Chang Zheng, as it is called in China, Jean Fritz, the distinguished children’s historian, has performed a public service. The story of the Long March is one that every American should know and ponder.” —New York Times
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- China’s Long March
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By Jean Fritz
Read by Bernadette Dunne
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Release Date: 1/01/14
Formats: Digital Audy
From award-winning children's author Jean Fritz comes the incredible true account of the Long March, a six-thousand-mile journey across China
In 1986, Jean Fritz went to China and talked to survivors of the Long March. It is from their recollections and her own broad, personal knowledge of Chinese history that Fritz has written one of the most compelling accounts of the incredible six-thousand-mile journey across China made by the Communist Army in 1934 and 1935.
Fritz takes us on the route of the sixty-mile-long First Front Army, the unit of Mao Zedong that wound its way through a terrain so perilous it was often more threatening than their battles with the enemy. The fear of a young soldier on Old Mountain afraid to go to sleep in case he might roll over and fall off the cliff is real to us; the drama and devastation that reduced the Red Army to twenty thousand men and women are immediate. And when the army crosses the thundering Dadu River on the threadbare remains of a bridge, we cross our fingers and hope to make it, too.
Skillfully placing events within the context of history, Fritz allows us to view them with the perspective of time, and, as she shares the memories of those she talked with, she brings humanness and intimacy to the participants and their unforgettable journey.
- China’s Long March
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By Jean Fritz
Read by Bernadette Dunne
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Release Date: 1/01/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Homesick
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By Jean Fritz
Read by Jean Fritz
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Release Date: 11/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
This heartwarming fictionalized autobiography tells the story of what it is like for a little girl to be growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying childhood in America, Jean Fritz was in China in the midst of political unrest. During this time, foreigners were becoming more and more unpopular, and evacuation at a moment’s notice was imminent. Although Jean appreciated the beauty of China—the mountains, the countryside, the sea—she knew she belonged in America and longed to make her home there.
- Homesick
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By Jean Fritz
Read by Jean Fritz
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Release Date: 11/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- China Homecoming
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By Jean Fritz
Read by Susan Boyce
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Release Date: 8/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
China Homecoming is the sequel to Jean Fritz's Newbery Honor book Homesick: My Own Story. As a grown woman, Jean returned to China where she was born and lived until she was thirteen.
Speaking Chinese, Jean felt welcome when she revisited China. Memories of her childhood washed over her as she visited her old home and the British School she had attended. Both had changed just as history had changed her hometown of Wuhan, but listeners will be moved at what it meant to Jean when she was declared an honorary citizen.
- China Homecoming
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By Jean Fritz
Read by Susan Boyce
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Release Date: 8/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Double Life of Pocahontas
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By Jean Fritz
Read by Melissa Hughes
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Release Date: 4/30/10
Formats: Digital Audy
Pocahontas was the special favorite of her father, the great chief Pawhatan. And when the English settlers came to Virginia, she became a "sister" to Captain John Smith, who was "adopted" into her tribe. She was permitted to move freely between the Indian and white worlds, and her life seemed perfect. But soon there was trouble. Pocahontas was kidnapped by the settlers, who forced her to live like a white woman. She yearned for her father to meet the colonists' demands so all would be well again. But before Pocahontas made peace, she would be asked to turn her back on everything she loved—and to leave her Indian world behind forever.
- The Double Life of Pocahontas
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By Jean Fritz
Read by Melissa Hughes
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Release Date: 4/30/10
Formats: Digital Audy