When six-year-old Mei-en is purchased from her gypsy owner by a foreign lady, the little Chinese girl is terrified. But Mei-en's new "owner" turns out to be Gladys Aylward, an English missionary, and together Gladys and Mei-en work to save nearly a hundred orphans from lives of terror and abandonment in the shadow of World War II.

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After coming to China to work as a missionary in the early 1930s, Gladys Aylward adopts several orphans and tries to save nearly a hundred more during the war between China and Japan.

This book is great biography because it teaches students about a person who helped change the lives of many orpan children escape. Someone did something kind of small the changed the outcome of something bigger. Genre: biography. Media: pencil. Age Appropriateness: intermediate, middle school. ( )