The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl (Hardcover) by Ma Yan, Pierre Haski

from Jmmott

Ma Yan is a thirteen year old girl living in the predominantly Muslim Ningxia region of China. Through her diary entries the reader sees the hardship that Ma Yan's family faces, and the guilt that she feels for being an above average student rather than an exemplary one. The book was published in...

from tramtran

Ma Yan and her family live in one of the poorest village in China. Everyday Ma Yan and her two brothers would walk over four hours to get to school, even in the rain and snow. Whenever it get tough, she would think of the sacrifices that her parents had to make in order for her and her brother to...

from autumnesf

Read this one. A true diary of a girl that wanted to go to school. As school costs the families in China, this girl's struggle to be considered worthy enough to keep her parents broke is really sad. C and I read this one as a Mother/Daughter book club read -- so your kids can read it also. I thin...

from rosesaurora

This book is the translated diary of a young girl in rural China struggling to stay in school. She knows that without an education she will be condemned to a life of poverty and back-breaking manual labor--but in a society that values boys over girls Ma Yan has to be better than everyone else to ...

from rosesaurora

This book is the translated diary of a young girl in rural China struggling to stay in school. She knows that without an education she will be condemned to a life of poverty and back-breaking manual labor--but in a society that values boys over girls Ma Yan has to be better than everyone else to ...