Most people cannot remember when their childhood ended.
Snow Falling in Spring is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children\'s Book of the Year..
This inspiring memoir follows Moying Li from age twelve to twenty-two, illuminating a complex, dark time in China\'s history as it tells the compelling story of one girl\'s difficult but determined coming-of-age During the Cultural Revolution.
Now, with so much of her life at risk, she finds sanctuary in the world of imagination and learning.
From labor camp, Baba entrusts a friend to deliver a reading list of banned books to Moying so that she can continue to learn.
After watching her teachers and headmasters beaten in public, Moying flees school for the safety of home, only to witness her beloved grandmother denounced, her home ransacked, her father\'s precious books flung onto the back of a truck, and Baba himself taken away.
Everything changes when student Red Guards begin to orchestrate brutal assaults, violent public humiliations, and forced confessions.
In 1966 Moying, a student at a prestigious language school in Beijing, seems destined for a promising future.
It happened at night in the summer of 1966, when my elementary school headmaster hanged himself.
I, on the other hand, have a crystal-clear memory of that moment.
Most people cannot remember when their childhood ended
