num_pages: 288
description: Introduction by Pearl S. Buck. This "accurate, vivid and well-written story" ( The New York Times ) is about Young Fu, a country boy, who is apprenticed to a master coppersmith when he and his mother move to the city of Chungking during the exciting and often dangerous 1920s.A Newbery Medal Book.
language: English
title: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
titlecomplete: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
genres: Fiction, Historical, Juvenile, China, Young Adult, Middle Grade, School, Classics, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 4610
places: Yangtze River, Sichuan, Chongqing, China
awards: awardedAt: -1167580800000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: -315590400000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
publisher: Yearling