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Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
In 1977, when Zhongmei Lei was eleven years old, she learned that the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy was having open auditions. She'd already taken dance lessons, but everyone said a poor country girl would never get into the academy, especially without any connections in the Communist Party of the 1970s. But Zhongmei, whose name means Faithful Plum, persisted, even going on a hunger strike, until her parents agreed to allow her to go. She traveled...
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