Zack is a normal 10-year-old boy with a knack for getting into weird situations such as adopting a talking cat, shrinking into the size of an ant, being able to talk to dolphins, finding Elvis in a turnip and much more. The books are short without looking babyish and...
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Appealing to both comics fans and Asian Americans seeking to claim their place in American culture, Secret Identities makes brilliant use of the conventions of the superhero comic book to expose the real face of the Asian American experience. This groundbreaking...
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Zack is a normal 10-year-old boy with a knack for getting into weird situations such as a dentists who recommends swallowing mouthwash, interacting with aliens, becoming invisible, a grandmother that plays professional baseball and many other stories. The books are...
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This book begins when John Arable's sow gives birth to a litter of piglets, and Mr. Arable discovers one of them is a runt and decides to kill it. However, his 9 year old daughter Fern begs him to let it live. Therefore her father gives it to Fern as a pet, and...
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A sensitively written, real-life sory about a boy called Little Leap Forward, growing up in the hutongs of Beijing in the 1960's, at the time of the Cultural Revolution. In a year when China is banning the sale of wild songbirds, ending a 2,000 year history...
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Middle school student Greg Heffley takes readers through an academic year's worth of drama in each of these books, adapted from Jeff Kinney's famous web comic. Greg's mother forces him to keep a diary and in it he loosely recounts each day's events,...
At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy. Having known bitter poverty in his rural China home, ballet would be his family's best chance for a better...
Fifth grader Nora Rowley narrates this tale by Andrew Clements (S & S, 2004) about a child who attempts to prove to adults that some accepted standards should be questioned. Since she was an infant, Nora has known that she is a genius. When she realized the...
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One of the most talk about books in China now, Yi Fan's tightly woven story delivers a manifest message promoting peace and freedom. ChinaSprout offers in English only and Chinese/English bilingual version. Starring woodland bird characters, the saga pits the...
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It's the Chinese Year of the Dog, and as Pacy celebrates with her family, she finds out that this is the year she is supposed to "find herself." As the year goes on, she struggles to find her talent, makes a new best friend, and discovers just why the...
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HE STARTED LEARNING to play the piano when he was three years old in Shenyang, China. Today he is one of the world's most outstanding pianists. In this engrossing life story, adapted by Michael French, Lang Lang not only recounts the difficult, often thrilling,...
Ginny is sure the new girl in her second-grade class will be her best friend. After all, Stephanie is Chinese, just like Ginny. But Ginny soon discovers some puzzling things about Stephanie: she doesn't like Chinese food, she hates her straight black hair, and even...
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