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Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan

Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan Hardcover - 2001

by Fa, Lu Chi; White, Becky

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  • Hardcover
  • first

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New York: Holiday House (2001).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth with silver lettering to spine. viii, 212 pages. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by Lu Chi Fa and Becky White. "Currently the owner of a restaurant in California, Lu looks back on a life that reflects China's tumultuous recent history, from wars and famine to Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution." - PW
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Details

  • Title Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan
  • Author Fa, Lu Chi; White, Becky
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Holiday House (2001)., New York
  • Date 2001-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 008009
  • ISBN 9780823415601 / 0823415600
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.1 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 2.79 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 13 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 8
  • Reading level 740
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
  • Library of Congress subjects China, Orphans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99048509
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2001, Page 1860
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2001, Page 183
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/07/2001, Page 249
  • School Library Journal, 07/01/2001, Page 127

About the author

Lu Chi Fa was born in the Jiangsu Province in China. He grew up there and in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In 1969, he immigrated to the United States. He now owns a successful restaurant and lives in Morro Bay, California.

Becky White taught elementary school for five years before creating more than three hundred educational books. She lives with her husband in a windmill home in California, where she enjoys gardening and making books and movies for her grandchildren.

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