This moving story of Sang Sang, a 14 year old boy living in the rural province of Youmadi, tells of the trials and tribulations of an adolescent boy in rural China. From his conflicts at school and descriptions of his family life to his budding romance with a...
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This is the story of a Chinese girl, told in her own words, of her life from childhood to adulthood. She tells of the pain and passion, of the funny and furious, and of the beautiful and the tragic as she grows up. Her story is set in the period of China's revolution...
In a village nestled at the foot of a mountain in Yunnan Province in Southern China, a father who desperately wants a son. has fate deliver to him six daughters. His unhappiness with fate leads to a series of unfortunate events. This novel tells the story of the...
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The story of 3 Tian Tang Street is about a Shanghai teenager, Lang Lang. His misunderstandings between his parents which threaten to evolve into a divorce, his growing feelings for a girl who toys with his feelings, and his struggles with the school bully will touch...
In China, many myths are told about the creation of the world. In Chinese Mythology, Stories of Creation and Invention, you will find supernatural explanations for many things, including how the ox came to work in the fields and how silk came into the...
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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ALVIN HO is an Asian American second grader who is afraid of everything--elevators, tunnels, girls, and, most of all, school. He's so afraid of school that, while he's there, he never, ever, says a word. But at home he's a very loud superhero named...
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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,...
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...
Kinney's popular Web comic, which began in 2004, makes its way to print as a laugh-out-loud "novel in cartoons," adapted from the series. Middle school student Greg Heffley takes readers through an academic year's worth of drama. Greg's mother...
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Grace Lin has received the 2010 Newbery Honor Book Medal for this book - "a rich tapestry of stories, both original and traditional, transports readers to a fantastic world where Dragon joins Minli on a fortune-changing quest." Read more about Grace Lin in...
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Enjoy this popular title by Shel Silverstein in Chinese. The different ones it encounters - and what it discovers in its helplessness - are portrayed with simplicity and compassion in the words and drawings of author. Ages 6-10....