Moving honest and deeply personal Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century. It's 1966 and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains popularity and a bright future in Communist China. But it's also the year that China's leader Mao Ze-dong launches the Cultural Revolution—and Ji-li's world begins to fall apart. Over the next few years people who were once her friends and neighbors turn on her and her family forcing them to live in constant terror of arrest. And when Ji-li's father is finally imprisoned she faces the most difficult dilemma of her life.
