Edited by Nick Healy. Capstone/Switch Press, $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-63079-012-7
More than 40 brief true stories from Pete Hautman, Alison McGhee, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka and others address a vast range of experiences and emotions that will be painfully familiar to teens or anyone who ever was one. Several stories, like Rachael...
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Da Chen, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-72929-1
Adapted for young adults from Chen's memoir (Colors of the Mountain), this coming-of-age tale traces the author's boyhood in Maoist China. Born in 1962, Chen grows up in privation and humiliation as the grandson of former landlords. His...
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This book begins where Chen's extremely well-received second memoir, Colors of the Mountain,
published last year, left off. Coming from the small town of Yellow Stone in the southern province of Fujian, 16-year-old Chen moves to early 1980s...
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Da Chen, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-73020-4
Chen (China's Son) turns from memoir to fiction with mixed results in this uneven fantasy set in ancient China. Eleven-year-old Luka lives with his guardian, the monk Atami, hiding from Mogo invaders and begging for food. Atami, explaining that...
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Da Chen, Author . Delacorte $8.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-385-73050-1
Adapted for young adults, from the author's adult memoir Colors of the Mountain, this coming-of-age tale traces Chen's boyhood in Maoist China as the grandson of former landlords. PW
called it an "intriguing perspective on this...
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Da Chen, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.99 (213p) ISBN 978-0-440-22926-1
Adapted from his adult memoir, Colors of the Mountain
, this coming-of-age tale traces the author's boyhood in Maoist China as his family is stripped of property and cruelly treated. "Humor and unflinching honesty inform the narrative,"
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Da Chen, Author . Crown/Shaye Arehart $25 (421p) ISBN 978-1-4000-9728-9
Acclaimed memoirist Chen (Colors of the Mountain
) draws on his experiences growing up during the Cultural Revolution for this arresting novel about two brothers negotiating the momentous changes that have buffeted China in recent decades. The...
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Da Chen, Author . HarperCollins/Geringer $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-0-06-144758-7
Chen (Wandering Warrior
) again mixes martial arts, Chinese lore and light romance with great success in another Forbidden Tales novel. His cunning heroine, Miu Miu, steps forward on her 15th birthday, determined to kill the emperor who murdered her
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Da Chen, Author Random House (NY) $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-50288-0
The grandchild of a former landlord--China's most spat-upon class after the Revolution--Chen was regularly beaten to a pulp by other children and, despite performing at the top of his class, repeatedly denied the right to continue at school. His...
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Da Chen. Crown, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-38130-9
Chen's (Brothers) 19th-century tale of obsession explores the line between love and madness. After Samuel Pickens's first love, Annabelle, perishes in a fire a month into their adolescent romance, her spirit stays with him through Yale and beyond,...
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Da Chen. Scholastic Focus, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-338-26386-2
Chen (China’s Son) casts his steadfast oldest sister, Sisi, as the heroine of this middle grade memoir, which depicts the tense atmosphere at the dawn of China’s Cultural Revolution. When Chairman Mao comes to power in 1949, Communist policies...
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