Jean Fritz

A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.

The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's. "Looking at her father's globe, ten-year-old Jean Fritz knew she was on the wrong side of the world: in China, when she should have been in America, roller skating. This was a period of turmoil in China, and foreigners were becoming very unpopular. Yet there were many happy memories, and this story from Jean's childhood is filled with wonderful...

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