<DIV><p><b>Chosen for the 2009&ndash;2010 Great Lakes Great Books Award ballot for grades six to eight</b></p><p><b>Starred reviews in <i>Publishers Weekly</i> and <i>School Library Journal</i></b></p><p>"In its excellence in representing political upheaval through the eyes of a child, this book belongs next to Peter Sis's <i>The Wall</i>; in its directness, next to the work of Allen Say. The indefatigable energy of Chen's brush, though, is all his own."&mdash;<i>Publishers Weekly</i></p></DIV>