Jack Spady- the wild ginger

I think the book, The Wild Ginger, is going to be a good read as it has so far in the beginning. So far it has told how the narrator, Maple, is a girl in elementary school in China and how everything is so strict. She is beaten for the reason that she looks a little different which means that "she is the enemy." The girl Hot Pepper is a bully to Maple and is part of the Red Guard so she can behave how she wants because Mao "says she can do what it takes to control." Then there is a new student called, Wild Ginger. She also is different looking like Maple with yellow, green eyes. But when Hot Pepper confronts her, Wild Ginger doesn't back down. She ends up punching Hot Pepper, but in result is beat up by Hot Pepper and her gang. Maple and Wild Ginger start a friendly relationship because they can relate to one another.