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“I’m Ning,” she managed to say. “Don’t you know me?”
“Of course, I don’t know you.”
She clung to him with her fingernails, as if she could make him hear her if he would only stand still. “Please listen,” she begged.
“I said . . . get away from me!” He pushed her hard, and she fell to the pier.
Like a wounded animal, she froze. If she didn’t move, he couldn’t hurt her again.
View from Pagoda Hill
Twelve-year-old Ning doesn’t know where she belongs. The daughter of a Chinese woman and American man, Ning doesn’t fit in in 1870s Shanghai, where her American features and unbound feet make her stand out. When she receives news that her father will be visiting from America, Ning excitedly hopes that her parents will become a family. Instead, she learns that her father is taking her back with him to America. Ning wonders if being American will finally give her a sense of belonging, but when she arrives, she discovers that living in America isn’t perfect either. In this coming-of-age novel based on the life of author Michaela MacColl’s great-great-grandmother, a young girl learns to accept both sides of her heritage and find a new identity for herself.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
School Library Connection -Recomended
Book Details
- Publisher: Calkins Creek
- Published: April 2021
- Pages: 360
- Ages: 9 - 12
- Grades: 4 - 7
- List Price: $17.99
- ISBN: 1629797820
- ISBN-13: 978-1629797823