From the Bookshelf of Mineola Library's 2012 FALL Reading Challenge…
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If you read Shanghai Girls and liked it, you need to read Dreams of Joy. This story picks up where Joy runs away to China after learning things at home aren't what she has grown up to believe. She feels betrayed and is dealing with anger and sadness. Suicide isn't the answer for her, although she sort of blames herself for her “father's” decision to end his own life. It is the time in history when the Communist Party of China begins the campaign known as The Great Leap Forward. Lisa See tells th
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Feb 22, 2011
Mary
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