Chosen from millions of children to serve in Mao’s cultural revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy, Li knows ballet would be his family’s best opportunity to escape the poverty in his rural China home. From one hardship to another, Li perseveres, never forgetting the family he left behind.
- ISBN: 9780802797797
- Author: Cunxin, Li
- Published: 2008, Walker Books for Young Readers
- Themes: Ballet, Chinese Cultural Revolution, communism, Courage, Dance, Family, memoir, Poverty, resilience
- Descriptors: Asia, Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, China, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 304