num_pages: 199
description: Seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China's capital, Beijing.  Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian An Men Square as desperate students fight the Chinese army for their freedom.  Separated from his father and carrying illegal videotapes, Alex must trust the students to help him escape.Closely based on eyewitness accounts of the massacre in Beijing, Forbidden City is a powerful and frightening story.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Forbidden City
titlecomplete: Forbidden City
genres: Read For School, Canada, Historical, Historical Fiction, Childrens, School, Young Adult, China, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 1378
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
publisher: Laurel Leaf