New Releases by Elizabeth Foreman LEWIS

A thirteen-year-old boy in 1920s China learns about hard work and life in the big city in this classic coming-of-age-story. When Young Fu arrives with his mother in bustling 1920s Chungking, all he has seen of the world is the rural farming village where he has grown up. He knows nothing of city life. But the city, with its wonders and dangers, fascinates the thirteen-year-old boy, and he sets out to make the best of what it has to offer him. First published in 1932, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze was one of the earliest Newbery Medal winners. Although China has changed since that time, Young Fu''s experiences are universal: making friends, making mistakes, and making one''s way in the world.

This is a story of Chinese youth''s struggle with the tiger of war. Driven by misery and terror, millions of Chinese found themselves helpless in the grip of one aggressor after another, until the old proverb "To beat a tiger, one needs a brother''s help" acquired a grim and very real significance. Into the already overcrowded International Settlement of Shanghai poured the countless hordes of refugees. From farm, village, and city they came in a neverending stream. And in one cavelike hovel on the outskirts of Shanghai sixteen young men banded together in a desperate effort to survive. These youths had fled the "war tiger" from a variety of origins but, despite differences in birth and breeding, all shared three things in common: hunger, misery and constant peril.

Novel of sixteen boy refugees, living in Shanghai during the fourth year of the Japanese occupation.

Li and his grandfather lose their livelihood as fishermen and become refugees in China during the Sino-Japanese Conflict.

An account of the author''s experiences as a doctor in Chungking.

Twelve-year old Ho-ming grows up during a changing China.