Little Leap Forward
a boy in Beijing
by Guo Yue
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It is the summer of 1966, and Little Leap Forward and his friends are growing up in Beijing. One day Little Leap Forward catches a bird. He keeps the bird in a cage and tries to teach it to sing. But his pet is silent - what can he do? Then the Red Guards arrive, and Little Leap Forward sees things in a new light.
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Little Leap Forward: a boy in Beijing
2011, Barefoot, Barefoot Books, Limited
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In Communist China in 1966, eight-year-old Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his best friend, by trying to get a caged wild bird to sing, and through the music he is learning to play on a bamboo flute. Includes author's notes on his childhood in Beijing, life under Mao Zedong, and the Cultural Revolution.
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