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Bronze and Sunflower
Bronze and Sunflower | Wenxuan Cao, Helen Wang
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When Sunflower, a young city girl, moves to the countryside, she grows to love the reed marsh lands - the endlessly flowing river, the friendly buffalo with their strong backs and shiny round heads, the sky that stretches on and on in its vastness. However, the days are long, and the little girl is lonely. Then she meets Bronze, who, unable to speak, is ostracised by the other village boys. Soon the pair are inseparable, and when Bronze's family agree to take Sunflower in, it seems that fate has brought him the sister he has always longed for. But life in Damaidi is hard, and Bronze's family can barely afford to feed themselves. Will the city girl be able to stay in this place where she has finally found happiness?
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Auntynanny
Bronze and Sunflower | Wenxuan Cao, Helen Wang
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This was a great middle grade novel! I really empathized with both Bronze and Sunflower. The novel uses the Cultural Revolution in China as its' backdrop, but doesn't really get into the details. I'm very interested to read some nonfiction history about it.

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Peddler410
Bronze and Sunflower | Wenxuan Cao, Helen Wang
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Completely stumbled across this at the bookshop today. It was facing out on the shelf and the cover art drew me in. Then I saw it was translated from Mandarin--this is now part of our permanent collection. I'm excited to explore Bronze and Sunflower's adventure with my daughter. Who knows where I can get a copy in Mandarin?
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BookBabe Love the cover art! ❤️ 7y
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RivendellMom
Bronze and Sunflower | Wenxuan Cao, Helen Wang
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One million thumbs up. They had better translate and publish the sequel because I must know what happens next. This reads like a Chinese little house on the prairie- including locusts eating the crops. I know this is going to win awards. Go get it while it's still on Netgalley.

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