Pub Date: March 4, 2025
Dewey: 305.89510794
LCCN: 2024020217
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 07 to 11
Physical Info: 0.50" H x 11.20" L x 9.20" W ( 1.10 lbs) 40 pages
Description: "A powerful nonfiction picture book about the history of Chinese immigration to the West Coast, presented through the lens of the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre. An essential account that offers both heartbreak and hope"--
Brief description: Livia Blackburne is a Chinese American writer who penned her first novel while researching the neuroscience of reading at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She now writes full-time and is the author of several books including Midnight Thief (An Indies Introduce New Voices selection) and Feather & Flame (in Disney's Queen's Council series), as well as the picture book I Dream of Popo, which received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus. She is based in California.
Review Quotes:
"Fire-oriented metaphors that hint at the coming conflagration describe growing tensions, while Xu's thick-lined ink and digital media illustrations incorporate images of fire, smoke, and sparks."--Publishers Weekly
-- (3/10/2025 12:00:00 AM)