num_pages: 163
description: This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of Jean Fritz's award-winning account of her life in China, and to honor this story, it is only fitting that it be added to our prestigious line of Puffin Modern Classics. This fictionalized autobiography tells the heartwarming story of a little girl growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying their childhood in America, Jean Fritz was in China in the midst of political unrest. Jean Fritz tells her captivating story of the difficulties of living in a unfamiliar country at such a difficult time.
language: English
title: Homesick: My Own Story
titlecomplete: Homesick: My Own Story
genres: China, Autobiography, History, Childrens, Asia, Biography Memoir, Middle Grade, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2801
places: China
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award
category: Children's Fiction (Hardcover), awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Zilveren Griffel, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Best Children's Books of the Year (Bank Street College of Education)
publisher: Puffin Books